Dangling Propositions
Subtitle: "The Superstoic" "Instrument" "Not to Behold"
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Columbia, SC
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 122
Description: “…blessed are those/Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled/That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger/To sound what stop she please.” (Hamlet, Act III, Sc. 2) These Shakespearean lines may have occurred to Nebo Rhombus, confronted
with obeying the mysterious will of the “plasmamorph” in “Instrument​,” one of two stories comprising Dangling Propositions​. A force of life from Earth’s atmosphere has revealed itself to Rhombus, an image consultant/promoter. It is determined to employ him to somehow lead 
humankind from a world-threatening course, before that course is cataclysmically corrected.

A matter of course is also plotted in “The Superstoic​,” though on an individual scale. Whether ultra-reticent library worker Zharko Solovich is willing, he is held to account for his right to be silent in an alternate world where no such right exists.

For compulsive mimic, Bogustin Guisermann, who hides himself mirroring others, being unintentionally “gifted” with the ability to blind people to his presence, as a result of though-projection experiments, may be the refuge from the “judging sight” of the world he’s always sought. In “Not to Behold​,” to be perceived, or not to be perceived, seems the question.
Table of contents: title: "The Superstoic" 1; title: "Instrument" 34; title: "Not to Behold" 96