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Edward C. Patterson has been writing novels, short fiction, poetry and drama his entire life, always seeking the emotional core of any story he tells. With his eighth novel, The Jade Owl, he combines an imaginative touch with his life long devotion to China and its history. He has earned an MA in Chinese History from Brooklyn College with further post graduate work at Columbia University. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has spent four decades as a soldier in the corporate world gaining insight into the human condition. He won the 1999 New Jersey Minority Achievement Award for his work in corporate diversity. Blending world travel experiences with a passion for story telling, his adventures continue as he works to permeate his reader's souls fr ...more

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“If you have the goods, life's too short to wait. Hidden gold is lost gold. The world should not be denied an opportunity to touch the collective imagination. To those who deny both the world and themselves, their larder deserves absolute obscurity. For those who share, obscurity is relative and a spark remains to keep the embers warm.”
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“But God gives us certain gifts and attraction is one of them. I, like you, am drawn to the men and wouldn’t have it any other way. But Stumpy was drawn to both sexes.”
“Bi-sexual?
“I wouldn’t say that. Neither would he have, because labels are so confining. They don’t define us. We define us.”
― Edward C. Patterson, Mother Asphodel

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“How did you get your drag name, dear?”
“The usual way.”
“Street of birth and pet’s first name?”
“It appeared to fit, although my Nicky doesn’t care for Brooks MacDonald. He says it makes me sound like a farm.”
“If I went by that rule, I would have been Fido Flushing.”
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