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""Penetrating stories of connection and the dark uncertainty of life."" -Publisher Weekly's BookLife, EDITOR'S PICK ""In the ever-crowded landscape of contemporary short fiction, John K. Danenbarger's Waves of Light and Darkness emerges as a sharp, unapologetically cerebral collection that demands the reader's full attention.[...] It's a masterful work that proves, even in the darkness, there is a pulse."" -Los Angeles Book Review ""Waves of Light and Darkness is a musing short story collection made up of character-driven, introspective tales. [...] The existential narratives collected in Waves of Light and Darkness orbit themes of love, grief, death, and time."" -Foreword Reviews ""A well-imagined and disquieting set of works that will stay with readers."" -Kirkus Reviews ""In this collection, John subtly confronts the reader with a philosophical avalanche disguised as storytelling. The characters are inescapably compelling as each confronts the eternal interchange between good and evil, life and death, being and nothingness, truth and falsity. The characters and their unique, but interrelated conditions, stay with the reader and open many avenues for individual reflection, and, perhaps, an ultimate reconciliation with an unmoved universe."" -Lieutenant Colonel Keith D. Dickson, Professor Emeritus, National Defense University ""It's not often that we are given the gift of stories that can engage us intellectually and deliver-with at times wicked humor, subtlety, and surprises-characters whose lives we come to care about. In Waves of Light and Darkness, John K Danenbarger miraculously does both, creating a rare and memorable experience for readers."" -Dr. Charles Johnson, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Washington ""Loss, attachment, life dragging on after both-Danenbarger goes there and doesn't sugarcoat it. The voice feels like somebody in the room with you, not performing, just talking. [...] This book doesn't wrap grief or meaning in a bow. It just sits there with them, and that's enough. Worth every page."" -BookBelow ""[For] readers who enjoy introspective writing that explores both the highs and lows of life, with just enough irony. Like its title suggests, Waves of Light and Darkness moves across the shifting emotional tides of the human experience through 23 unique stories."" -Sublime Book Review

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John K Danenbarger was a stock broker but now writes existential literary fiction. He spent two years sailing the New England and Bermuda coasts, and now spends much of his creative time in Italy with his wife, Grazia, and their three cats. He is the author of the literary crime novel, Entanglement: Quantum + Otherwise.

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