Ben East Books

Citizenship | Literature

Select novels, short stories, and nonfiction on contemporary life.

PROFILES IN SERVICE

What began as a bold experiment in grassroots service produced future ambassadors to help guide U.S. diplomacy through seven decades of global upheaval.

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Novels

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  • Golden Nib, Blue Ribbon

    This spring I submitted the story to my local Virginia Writers Club chapter, the Northern VWC. Today I learned I won the blue ribbon for my Golden Nib submission.

  • Infinite Agents, Zero Answers

    The finest in storytelling as a coping mechanism for what happens to us in the real-world. Join me in an audio experience that turns a chat with AI into a satire of chatting with AI.

  • Bot Battle

    Your schizophrenic mind imagines the bot and all its bot friends at the BigBotCorporation scraping your user data and related accounts to better understand what position you’re in to pay exorbitant fees and thereby charge you the maximum without scaring you off.

  • So Much More than a Sandwich

    Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee Diane Fanning shared her gathered wisdom from publishing 27 books. My favorite: Writing is not a competition. All writers walk in each other’s shoes and know the courage and resilience required to complete the ACT OF WRITING A BOOK.

  • Blocked Caller

    You have a long history of resentment and loathing toward the telephone. Phone calls with the home warranty company, Chince, merely made you hate them all the more.

  • The Leak Business

    Having not done this before, I’m hesitant to pull to hard. I don’t want to break something. We just had a new shower installed in this bathroom and wouldn’t it destroy me to have to redo the vanity? Ever been to a tile store? Some things in life we need less choice, not more.

  • Numb

    Down at the USA Jeans Factory today we produced a memo asking for reinstatement to the work we’re professionally trained to do while slogging over the work of individuals fired from doing the jobs they knew so well. I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, The dream is gone.

  • Have It Your Way

    “A pedestrian is a much smaller threat than a vehicle. What if I was driving a cyber truck? I’d be crazy, right? A madman.”

  • Happy Birthday

    250 years ago the 2nd Continental Congress formed the Continental Army to throw off the yoke of tyranny.

  • Hope Amid Distress

    Throughout his tidy narrative Tidwell grapples with the most universally disheartening issue of our day without sending the reader into despair. Rather than spread the disease of hopelessness, we hear voices of reason who’ve dedicated their lives to climate action, in their own backyards and across the neighborhood.

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