Marc OBrien
Bio
Barry University graduate Marc O'Brien has returned to Florida after a 17 year author residency in Las Vegas. He will continue using fiction as a way to distribute information. Books include "The Final Fence: Sophomores In The Saddle"
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Banking On Community Theater
The only thing I can think about is the magical spell that an area can project on its own silver screen capturing residents live performances on the reality stage, celebratory figures. Script reading a positive façade is the community glue that holds together people making them strong and safe. What are the caricatures in this theatrical production? That question can be answered by understanding two factors, the political headliners sitting on their pulpit behind a wooden chamber with microphones who earlier in the day passed a sound check and the suspicious individual waltzing into the theater when they want to, ‘the journalist from the information outlet looking for something to stir things up, kindly reporting to the townspeople what is going on throughout the land where they have invested’.
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Fiction
A Simple Monologue Essay About Life Changes Due To Unseen Microscopic Forces
During the month when the thirteenth was scheduled to be on a Friday for the first time in the new decade, I sat inside an English pub watching the afternoon sporting match and enjoying lamb swimming stew fully, waiting for sacrifice. Outside this innocent luncheon break, an invisible horror beast brewed, touting major deadly results comparing itself to a setting asking, ‘if a world leader pressed a simple button putting into play a weapon that could not be taken back, what would happen?’.
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Humans
The Stage Relationship
‘The longest journey I ever took was’ should have been the title to the overdue production Robert Simon was developing inside his mind down at the city university arts center. Instead, the evening’s program published and printed, “Poetic Short Stories Lectured to You - A Romantic Choreographed Dance Comedy Presentation.”
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Fiction
A Reading From The Book Of Airport
Animal Ark Airlines flight 775 sporting the three letter ‘A’ triangle logo flew peacefully through the night sky passing misty clouds, performing its red eye mission. Inside the mechanical tube Angel Shepard tended to her passenger flock by performing routine required job description duties.
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Fiction
