I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
- from The Moon and the Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham, 1919
Cheri Ause
Online Publication Updates
- "Fall Apples" 2nd Place Prize ~ Redwood Writers 2013 Fiction Contest ~ October 13, 2013
- "Relics" my Pure Slush counterpoint story to Linda Simoni-Wastila's "The Comfort of Friends" ~ Pure Slush online ~ November 30, 2012
- "Visions of the Saint" ~ real: Pure Slush vol. 3 ~ October, 2012
- "A Basement of Vampires" ~ Z-composition ~ August, 2012
- "Elemental" ~ Word Gumbo ~ February, 2012
- "Haircut" ~ The Redwood Coast Review ~ Fall 2011
- "Fireline Road" (Part of FF-W Project) ~ Apollo's Lyre ~ September 2011
- "Photograph of a Child on a Pony" (poem) ~ Every Day Poets ~ Sept 24, 2011
- "Sweet Expectations" ~ Fiction365 ~ August 27, 2011
- "The Shortcut" ~ Midwest Literary Magazine ~ June 2011 (pp 94-96)
- "Never Turn Your Back on the Sea" ~ Short, Fast, and Deadly: Issue 83 ~ July 10, 2011
- "La Gioconda" ~ 52|250 A Year in Flash ~ May 2011
- "Atonement" ~ Negative Suck ~ May 2011
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