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Dan first started writing stories in elementary school, where he and a friend would skip lunch and recess once a month to eat in the library while hearing all about the new books on the shelves. His love for reading, as with visual art and music, has now extended into creating his own fiction. He works as a digital artist and lives in Washington state with his beautiful family of five. A huge fan of audio books, Dan podcasts all of his stories for free. You can find those stories here, or subscribe to the podcast with a button on the right. You can also find cheap eBooks of his stories at Amazon.com and the same ones in different formats including free eBooks at Smashwords.com

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Tapping a Screen | A Poem

Poetry is likely best produced

By scratching away at parchment thick

Across creamy tan

Not xerox white

The corners curled not pressed flat and tight

With quill freshly dipped

In ink as black as night

However

This deviation distraction device

Is always by my side

Or in my pocket on a ride

Continuously within reach

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Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)

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Dan Absalonson said: " My 13 year old and I really enjoyed this book. Great slow build, and lots of fun on the way. I like how the story slowly unfolds instead of the author stopping the story to relay tons of stuff in an info dump. I don’t mean to say the story is slow, j ...more "

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Dan Absalonson said: " I think the best word to sum up this novel and it's narration is delightful. Anne Hathaway's narration was incredibly fun to listen to. You can tell she had a blast narrating it and getting into the different characters. I'm turning 31 this month and ...more "

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