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Fiction Literary

The Unusual Lives: A Chastised

by (author) Lana Guzman

photographs by Edgar Guzman

Publisher
NOBLE GRAY PRESS
Initial publish date
Jul 2023
Category
Literary, Family Life
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781998110025
    Publish Date
    Jul 2023
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

Cyrus is born into a comfort, only none of that comfort seems to transpire onto him internally. He grows up as a fully psychotic and anti-social creature. He quickly discovers his very average mental capacity, that, according to him, was an injustice. He enjoys intermittent career success, but he fails to establish any kind of human connection with anyone or anything that crosses his path. He spends the few decades of his adult life pursuing a vengeance against everyone who is better than him in one or another way. His final days are an epitome of him being a chastiser and a chastised man he had always been.

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Contributor Notes

Lana Guzman, MBA is an entrepreneur with two decades of academic and business writing and research experience. This is her sixth short novel in the series, along with The Unusual Lives: A Victim(izer); The Unusual Lives: A Fool(er); The Unusual Lives: An Evil(doer); The Unusual Lives: Subjugation; and The Unusual Lives: A Trafficked(er). Her other works include two full-length, professional books in The Get-It-Done series: The Get-It-Done Business Plan: Write a Business Plan That Will Get Your Business Financed and The Get-It-Done CV: Create a CV That Will Land You Your Dream Job and a number of short stories as part of eight fiction series. She lives in Toronto with her family.

Excerpt: The Unusual Lives: A Chastised (by (author) Lana Guzman; photographs by Edgar Guzman)

Cyrus was born into what seemed to be a regular family. He had both parents and four grandparents. He was always provided for, both financially and in terms of his parents' time and attention directed to him. Only, none of that was ever enough for Cyrus. He felt nervous probably from his very first breath. It was never clear why, although his mother did drink a lot of coffee throughout her pregnancy. Whether it really was coffee or it was something entirely different, Cyrus felt out of place even when before he became a toddler. There probably was a good reason for that.