Marc OBrien
Bio
Barry University graduate Marc O'Brien has returned to Florida after a 17 year author residency in Las Vegas. He will continue using fiction as a way to distribute information. Books include "The Final Fence: Sophomores In The Saddle"
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Twin Theater's Final Collegiate Performance
The Athlete During the roaring twenties, the last century acknowledgements featured cowboy shootouts and panhandling for gold. But when the decade turned old everything crashed down in one episode leaving the American euphoria depressed. Nothing much changed when the nineteen hundred years transitioned to the two thousand. Only researching unknown subjects turned instant allowing the young to focus on other things besides library transportation.
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Education
Celebrating Nurses Week Reading Fiction Under The Microscope
The School Nurse As the afternoon arrived the recreation bell rang, allowing grammar school nurse Mary to entertain the sandwich she prepared the night before while watching episodic television featuring competitive romances.
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Motivation
A Pediatric Knockout Performance
Peering in a delusional state past shining lights, the audience wearing white coats took their seats anticipating an amazing lecture experience when the operating room surgical theater curtain raised. A female voice then requests, “count back from ten,”
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Fiction
The Unexpected Rebellious Act
Outside a tempting metropolis, peaceful farmland pasture stretched for miles teasing its workaholic guests. Photogenic Pederson Farley played the city nicknamed Gotham every weekday from nine am to five pm. When he came home to the rural open space his personality changed from pinstripes into proper equestrian attire claiming to be training or practicing.
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Fiction
Banking On Community Theater
The only thing I can think about is the magical spell that an area can project on its own silver screen capturing residents live performances on the reality stage, celebratory figures. Script reading a positive façade is the community glue that holds together people making them strong and safe. What are the caricatures in this theatrical production? That question can be answered by understanding two factors, the political headliners sitting on their pulpit behind a wooden chamber with microphones who earlier in the day passed a sound check and the suspicious individual waltzing into the theater when they want to, ‘the journalist from the information outlet looking for something to stir things up, kindly reporting to the townspeople what is going on throughout the land where they have invested’.
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Fiction
A Simple Monologue Essay About Life Changes Due To Unseen Microscopic Forces
During the month when the thirteenth was scheduled to be on a Friday for the first time in the new decade, I sat inside an English pub watching the afternoon sporting match and enjoying lamb swimming stew fully, waiting for sacrifice. Outside this innocent luncheon break, an invisible horror beast brewed, touting major deadly results comparing itself to a setting asking, ‘if a world leader pressed a simple button putting into play a weapon that could not be taken back, what would happen?’.
By Marc OBrien3 years ago in Humans
