Over the next week, we’ll be releasing Shattering Glass Single #1 to help promote Shattering Glass by Connor Coyne. “Dunya and the Man on the Moon” is a haunting, surreal passage that channels the geometrical organic writing of Italo Calvino. Dunya, a student distraught over her lack of financial aid, flees to a diner on the outskirts of town to sort out her thoughts. What she finds is an unexpected conversation.
DUNYA AND THE MAN IN THE MOON
Click on the picture or link below to read (for free) the titular track from Chapter 5 of Shattering Glass.
Read Single #1: Track 1: Dunya and the Man in the Moon
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B-SIDE: THE TRAGEDY OF LUNA AND SPECTRE
“The episode of Shattering Glass entitled “The Story of the Moon and the Stars” was actually pilfered from an incomplete script I wrote titled Cosmology which dates back to 1998.
A few days after a particularly heartbreaking romantic entanglement, I found myself house-sitting for a friend in Flint’s College/Cultural neighborhood. I had insomnia, but no car or friends in the neighborhood at the time, so I walked to a little coney island on Dort Highway that was called “The Grapevine.” This one of many names it had possessed, and in the last 14 years, it has been renamed often. I wrote a short, weird story about a lonely girl conversing with the man in the moon. The scene that follows is an early revision dated to 1999.
This story continued to haunt and bother me after I gave up on Cosmology, and finally found a home in Shattering Glass in 2011.” — Connor Coyne
Click on the picture or link below to read (for free) this B-Side track from Chapter 5 of Shattering Glass.
Read Single #1: Track 2: The Tragedy of Luna and Spectre
Learn more about Shattering Glass.
Purchase the first installment.