Richard Scarsbrook's prize-winning stories illuminate
the moments when life spins in unexpected and
inexplicable directions.
A girl with a deadly allergy to the sun ventures out of
doors. A businessman abandons his sports car in the
middle of a traffic jam. A small-town waitress orders
her favourite breakfast for a motorcycle-riding stranger.
A Lolita-chasing man has a run-in with a mysterious
black taxi, and goes for a different kind of ride.
Sometimes, destiny does wait.
the moments when life spins in unexpected and
inexplicable directions.
A girl with a deadly allergy to the sun ventures out of
doors. A businessman abandons his sports car in the
middle of a traffic jam. A small-town waitress orders
her favourite breakfast for a motorcycle-riding stranger.
A Lolita-chasing man has a run-in with a mysterious
black taxi, and goes for a different kind of ride.
Sometimes, destiny does wait.
Reviews of Destiny's Telescope
"Destiny's Telescope is. . . a gem.
Scarsbrook's stories are arresting.
Anyone looking through the lens of this Telescope can't miss the author's own star -
rising up through the literary universe to a date with charmed destiny."
- Mike Gillespie, The Ottawa Citizen
"Destiny's Telescope is. . . a gem.
Scarsbrook's stories are arresting.
Anyone looking through the lens of this Telescope can't miss the author's own star -
rising up through the literary universe to a date with charmed destiny."
- Mike Gillespie, The Ottawa Citizen
"Scarsbrook writes about love, and writes about it very well.
All the stories are deeply emotional and have a tendency to affect you at a gut level.
Stark and haunting. . . deeply involving. . . exquisitely lyrical."
- Storyteller, Canada's Short Story Magazine
All the stories are deeply emotional and have a tendency to affect you at a gut level.
Stark and haunting. . . deeply involving. . . exquisitely lyrical."
- Storyteller, Canada's Short Story Magazine
"After reading the very absorbing and cinematically composed story "Black Taxi", I wanted more, much more of it. . . It posesses all the elements of a fascinating novel: good characters, setting, tension, superb dialogue, comedy, pace, etc. "Black Taxi" is a writhing, living thing and I read it with admiration and excitement. . . no small acheivement."
- Front + Centre (#15)
Award-Winning Fiction!
Stories Included in Destiny's telescope :
- WON The 2002 Lawrence House Centre for the Arts Short Story Competition
- WON The 2000 New Orphic Short Fiction Competition
- received Honourable mention in the 2002 Canadian Authors Association Short Story Competition
- received Honourable Mention in the 1996 Paragraph Short Fiction Contest,
- Were Finalists in the 2002 New Century Writer Awards.
- Front + Centre (#15)
Award-Winning Fiction!
Stories Included in Destiny's telescope :
- WON The 2002 Lawrence House Centre for the Arts Short Story Competition
- WON The 2000 New Orphic Short Fiction Competition
- received Honourable mention in the 2002 Canadian Authors Association Short Story Competition
- received Honourable Mention in the 1996 Paragraph Short Fiction Contest,
- Were Finalists in the 2002 New Century Writer Awards.
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Click HERE to go to the www.richardscarsbrook.com HOME PAGE.
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