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Exit Four is a collection of off-beat literary fiction originally published in university literary journals and elsewhere. The reader will find a long and very dark story set in subways in London, Paris, and New York; the invention of the chair, and how that disrupted an ancient culture; a couple who meet in a supermarket and how that place prefigures their lives together; an old man riding a train, who realizes that a young artist is drawing his gnarled hands; two lovers whose only real connection is a painting on a museum wall; and others.Some of these stories could happen, even if unlikely; others take place only in the uncertain world of the mind.

Love You to Pieces is a collection of 100 very brief poems and prose pieces about love, from the popular blog Memorable Fancies (terencekuch.com). Irony, humor, and pain all find their places here.

The Brittle Gods includes 38 poems celebrating collisions – sometimes jarring - of ancient with modern Greece. For example, in poem “Dionysos in Aulis,” ... holding the wheel very tight, staringstraight down the road remembering another time,when sails hung loose days after weeks,impatient generals sharing nods.                                                    We didwhat we had to, then slapped our shieldson swaying hulls for luck, sails snapping like dogsAgamemnon remembers the sacrifice he had to make [killing his daughter] so his fleet could sail against Troy.

Three one-act plays and one full-length play requiring two to four actors and modest props: In Clickers, a Senate candidate's past catches up with him as he watches election returns. In City Lines, Henry has a boss, a friend in Accounting, and a wife; but somehow, they're all the same. In Inventions: then, he loved her. Now, he has a plan. In Exit Four, two couples escape from a retirement home and hide out in an abandoned motel.

This book is a sampling of my publications in several forms and genres. I hope these selections will move the reader to read my novels and story collections available through Amazon, (www.amazon.com/author/terencekuch) Barnes & Noble, etc., or on the publishers' own sales websites. In addition to novel, short story, poem, and dramatic excerpts, Pictures of the Invisible includes a number of microfictions first posted on my popular "Memorable Fancies" website, www. terencekuch.com, also at Memorable Fancies on Facebook. If there is one overriding theme in these pieces, it is strangeness, whatever the genre: the feeling that something is not quite the way we thought it was, and that the longer we live and the more we learn, the more strange our reality seems. This has always been true of both particle physics and the human mind. It is true, as well, of everything else.