…descriptively written, gritty, and raw. You can almost feel what experiencing blindness must be like…
The Taylor Tribune
A Place Without a Postcard (Coyote Mercury Press, 2014) is a novel about a photographer who finds himself blinded, wanted by the law and stranded in west Texas. Not the western part of Texas, but the mythical West Texas where one might run into a coyote named Mercury or a man who dreams of invisibility.
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Book Description
Paul Reynolds, a photographer who creates UFO photos for tabloid magazines, wakes up with no idea where he is or how he got there. He can’t even recall his name. A strange man lurks nearby, breathing heavily and flipping through a book. Paul hears the man’s breath, but he cannot see him. He realizes with mounting panic that his eyes no longer function.
He remembers racing down a desolate West Texas highway. He remembers a cop who pulled him over for speeding. He remembers a shotgun-brandishing cook chasing him out of a diner. And he remembers a life abandoned, but he cannot put together the jigsaw puzzle that explains where he is: blind, wanted by the law, and in the company of this invisible stranger.
In the desert town of Armbister, Texas where temperatures hover near 110 degrees, Paul’s memory, intangible as a heat mirage, lies just beyond his reach, and God may be a coyote.
Blurbs & Reviews
Descriptively written, gritty, and raw. You can almost feel what experiencing blindness must be like.
The Taylor Tribune. February 20, 2003
This book is filled with sense-based ways of looking at ordinary things and, in so doing, Brush has created a unique story, full of mystery, suspense, and outright terror
Ronald Donaghe writing in The Independent Gay Writer
Ronald Donaghe’s review in The Independent Gay Writer (Oct 23, 2003; Vol.1 12).
Blog review at Heather in all Her Strangeness.
About, Etc.
A Place Without a Postcard, first published in 2003 by iUniverse, is now published by Coyote Mercury Press.
I started writing Postcard back in 1993 towards the end of college. I picked it up and put it down several times over the years. About half-way through, I decided to write it as a screenplay. I finished the script in the summer of 1995 and used it as part of my application to the graduate screenwriting program at the University of Texas.
I reworked the screenplay in grad school, but was never happy with it. It always felt like a novel to me. When I finished grad school in 1998, I started writing the book in earnest. I finished early in 1999. The book sat for a few years while I tinkered and rewrote and edited until it reached its finished form in late 2002.
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