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Author · Storyteller
David Carr
@davidcarr
Literary Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
David Carr is a literary fiction writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
Books and story worlds
Stories by David Carr
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Ferry House
After his mother dies, a middle-aged proofreader returns to a half-empty house on the edge of Galway Bay to sort through her papers and decide what to do with the place before winter. What he finds instead is a set of unpaid bills, a broken family arrangement, and evidence that his mother had been quietly holding the household together by lying to everyone. As he tries to keep the house from being sold off around him, he is forced to reckon with the small deceptions that made the family work and the larger ones that may have ended it.
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Draft progress
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