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By Ryan Napier

A new story by me in L’Éphémère Review about climate change, migration, and immortal conquistadors.

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You can now pre-order my chapbook, Four Stories about the Human Face, at the Bull City Press site. It’s out on October 2.

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THE TRIUMPH OF RELIGION - tragickal

I wasn’t religious. I wasn’t even spiritual. I’d never thought much about God: if he did exist, I figured, he would probably be happy with me, because I tried my best and never hurt anyone. And yet, something about the abbey called to me. As I looked at the pictures of the clean black robes and the candles of the chapel and the blooming earth, I began to understand the monks. They had devoted their lives to a purpose. They were living and working, all at once. They were, in their own way, like me. And so I went to the Abbaye du Nom du Père to learn the discipline of St. Aldo.

I wrote about burnout, meditation, and St. Aldo for Tragickal. 

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A Glorious History! by Ryan Napier : storySouth

I have a story in the new storySouth about the Confederacy and the history of my hometown.

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Print copies came today.

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"Big Buddha," by Ryan Napier

One more story for you this week: “Big Buddha” is up at North Star.

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The Sea — Ryan Napier

Self-care is so important. X. and Y. knew this, and acted accordingly. Their selves were well cared for. They had to be. X. and Y. had very demanding jobs (hers at a start-up, his at a non-p…

I wrote a story about being online all the time. It’s called “The Sea,” and it’s up at minor literature[s] now.

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Tishman Review 3.4, October 2017

I have a story in the October issue of the Tishman Review.

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John Berger: “many can recognize in Magritte a part of themselves which otherwise has no place in the present; the part which cannot concur with the rest of their lives, which cannot refute the moral concept of the impossible, which is the product of the violence done to the other parts.”

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I. For a little while, he had a name. This was from 1702, when he was born, to 1747, when he died. After that, people called him “the ghost.” He was born in Salonika, the oldest son of a dye merchant. He stood to inherit the business, but felt himself called to something higher and…

New piece up at Fluland. It’s a ghost story.

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I also have a Twitter now: https://twitter.com/ryanlnapier

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2017 Chapbook Open Reading Period selections announced

Bull City Press is pleased to announce that we will be publishing three chapbooks submitted during our summer 2017 Chapbook Open Reading Period: collections of poetry by Leah Silvieus and Connie Vo…

Good news—I have a chapbook coming out next year from Bull City Press.

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The bourgeois, however, is tolerant. His love of people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia

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New Fiction by Ryan Napier: “The Late Baroque”

New Fiction by Ryan Napier: “The Late Baroque”

My short story “The Late Baroque” is up on Entropy. It is only partly about seventeenth-century sculpture.

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Are we there yet? Is this the Zone? Is this it? That, perhaps, is a question that can be answered only by the questioner, when he stops asking it.

Geoff Dyer, Zona

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Fiction by Ryan Napier

I have a story, “The Holy Family,” in the new Noble / Gas Qtrly. You can read it here.

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FICTION: The White Throne by Ryan Napier

I tried not to. I held out as long as I could. But eventually, it happened. I started watching The White Throne. The White Throne was a show about a mythical kingdom. It had dragons and dwarves and…

My story “The White Throne” is up on Storgy. It’s about that ultraviolent medieval-fantasy show that everyone's talking about—you know, The White Throne.