Blog Tour: BINARY LOGIC by Tracy Ross

 

Binary Logic

by Tracy Ross

 

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GENRE: Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy

 

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BLURB:

 

Binary Logic is the perfect merge of content and form—exploring concepts of literary genre with revelatory narrative. It is a collection of tales touching on relational dysfunction, the conflicts inherent in addiction and fear, and the legacy of female future time lords. The stories all create a bridge between the reckoning imagination and the spirit of free will and self-made destiny. Binary Logic quietly asks the question, “Where is the mind of our species headed and what is the next quantum leap of human consciousness?”

 

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Excerpt One:

 

It was then that I realized I was in it for the both of us. My father and I against the anguish. At one point, during the early hours of morning, the crying faces had all gotten loose and were crawling up the walls and dropping from the ceiling like smokey apparitions from Dante’s Inferno, liquid shadows of creeping hunger, an infestation of screaming mouths and terror-stricken eyes, the reality of the walls closing in on me like a wriggling, dark prison. In my panic and shock, I finally blacked out, leaving the room for the numbing promise of sleep. I welcomed unconscious bliss.

 

Note to self: pain is a manifestation. It lives like a beast, a breathing, hungry creature, unable to free itself from destiny, unable to make the choice to release itself because it is comfortable in its tragedy. It is easier to go on in pain, then to go through to the other side where there is peace. The fear stops you. It prevents you from going all the way.

 

 

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Topic:  Please describe some of your best writing habits

 

I have found that if you place either your computer or your writing notebook by the nightstand, you have a tendency to wake up and go straight for it. This has helped me to start my day with a focused mind on what I am writing and to really carry through with my creative output from the night before. I find inspiration immediately upon starting my morning so that I can really establish a structured day early on.

 

The most important thing one can do in trying to write well and keep writing is to make the space your own by placing your objects around you that matter, reminding you of your vision and imagination. If there is too much space between you and the typewriter, you think too much and even while walking across the room to type your words on the page, you are already making excuses and the mind wanders.

 

Keep the space invaded with the tools of the trade—computer, typewriter, word-processor, pen, ink and paper, journal, and a cup of coffee or tea. Plenty of light and an imagination is all you need to really delve into the potentials of writing well and writing often.

 

Music also is a God send in keeping the mind awake and focused and pausing when it needs to in order to re-group or take a break.        

 

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Tracy Ross is the author of three poetry volumes and the fictional narrative Certainty of One—A Tale of Education Automation. Her latest work, Binary Logic is a short story collection which touches on many genres—surrealism, horror, magic realism, and science fiction. In Binary Logic she tries to not be tethered to one type of story but attempts to explore the metaphors and symbols behind the dualities of choice, free will, and decision.

 

Ross is a graduate of Augsburg University's MFA program and is a life-long student of the metaphysical behind language as well as consciousness studies. She has lived in Detroit, Chicago, and the Boundary Waters Canoe area in upper north Minnesota. As a youngster she progressed straight from Judy Blume books to Franz Kafka, making a giant leap into existentialism by the age of nine. She is also a student of film and popular culture, working on a new book of essays on life, liberty, and the pursuit of media. She currently lives and works in Minnesota.

 

 

AUTHOR WEBSITE: https://www.rosspoet.org/

AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE: https://www.amazon.com/Tracy-Ross/e/B09BBRXZ7F

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/tracyrossbooks/

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/tross5318/

 

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GIVEAWAY

 

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