Eclipsed by Shadow deals in the truth of two real things: history and horses, by recounting the adventure of a teenager who travels back in history. Yet horses and historical exploration aren’t the ‘spirit of the times’ — disturbingly, that is reserved for vampires and zombies.
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Why I wrote “The Legend of the Great Horse”
A tragedy sparked The Great Horse trilogy (of which Eclipsed by Shadow is the first volume). I came to know of this sad event because I lived in Cambridge, MA, where it occurred.
It happened in the 1990’s as a wave of corporatization washed over Harvard Square, which [...]
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I recently wrote that the spark to my writing “Eclipsed by Shadow” was triggered by the corporatization of Harvard Square and the loss of its venerable old bookstores. It was alarmingly easy to relate ancient nomadic destruction of religious settlements to the commercial invasion of these hallowed shelves. Both invaders had as their object mere [...]
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Chariots of early history (16th century BC)
This is my third “Mirror” post in a row, and where I finally explain the use of the metaphor and close the barn door after it.
In the first post of this Mirror trilogy, I mentioned becoming interested in reading about history while browsing the shelves of the doomed used [...]
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