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Singularity Kindle Edition

by Helena Hann-Basquiat (Author), Sara Litchfield (Author), Sandy Ramsey (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
Jessica B. Bell is not real.
A couple of years ago I started writing horror stories and Jessica was born. I had fun creating a twisted and ominous biography for her, painting a picture of some crazy hermit who lived in my basement and wrote stories on old parchment using her own blood for ink.
But she was never real.
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An unspeakable act of violence leaves the residents of Ward C, home of a secret experiment, dead – torn apart. There is only one survivor…
What happens when the creation surpasses the creator?
How far will Jessica go to be real?
Find out in SINGULARITY.
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    219 pages
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  3. Publication date
    August 4, 2015
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B011H4ULYC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dilettante Publishing
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 4, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.9 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 219 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0994041968
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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Helena Hann-Basquiat

Helena Hann-Basquiat

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Helena Hann-Basquiat dabbles in whatever she can get her hands into just to say that she has.

She's written cookbooks, ten volumes of horrible poetry that she bound herself in leather she tanned poorly from cows she raised herself and then slaughtered because she was bored with farming.

She has an entire portfolio of macaroni art that she's never shown anyone, because she doesn't think that the general populace, or, "the great unwashed masses" as she calls them, would understand the statement she was trying to make with them.

Some people attribute her with inventing the Ampersand, but she has never made that claim herself.

She was completely self-educated in a private institute in the Catskills where she majored in Pop Culture and Unpopular Music. She wrote her doctorate thesis on the films of John Hughes, and awarded herself a doctorate, though it's not generally recognized.

She enjoys short walks on the beach and getting smashed on Grey Goose and grapefruit juice and then staring at the SUN studios logo until it looks like it's alternately setting and rising.

She was born in the small village of Bichon-Frisse near the France/Switzerland border, daughter of a part-time cello teacher and a painter -- well, her mother painted nails at the Happy Time Nail Salon -- so that's sort of painting. And that bit about her father being a part-time cello teacher, that was not so much of a lie as a typo -- it should read Jello teacher -- he taught Home Economics three days a week at the local high school, and really was only called upon for his culinary expertise in the medium of Jello.

Helena is currently working on a rock opera based on the life of Cecil B. DeMille, tentatively titled "Cecil B. Goode", or perhaps "The Ten Commandments of Love"

When Helena is not writing ironic, self-deprecating loosely autobiographical post-modern memoirs, she writes disturbingly dark fiction under the name Jessica B. Bell.

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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully crafted.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2015
    This is a very fast read of stories within stories that grab you and take you on a journey of character development. While there were some typos, which is common in all publications, they weren't distracting from the plot or pacing of the book and were never enough to take me out of the world of Jessica... It's a frightening place that is tempting to want to visit at the same time. It skirts the boundaries of what is possible and makes you want to believe in the power of the impossible.
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  • Lisa L.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, Engaging, and Complex
    Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2015
    The subject matter of Singularity is not my usual cup of tea.

    It’s nothing at all like tea. It’s more like you want a nice cup of tea, but the only thing available to drink is vodka. So you drink the vodka, expecting to feel fire as it washes over your palate and burns its way to your stomach…

    But instead it’s good. It’s very good.

    I entered my reading of Singularity expecting horror. And horror was delivered, make no mistake. But this is not the stuff of scary movies. This type of horror is…real. It’s mental. It’s emotional. It’s raw. Suffice to say that many of our personal terrors come from within. That, perhaps, is true for both characters and reader in this book.

    I would call Singularity intelligently horrific. Hann-Basquiat (and the rest of her contributors) makes such clever use of names, of words, of connections. The book is peppered with references to the Bible, literature, pop culture, mythology… I found the words “oh, clever…very clever” whispered aloud several times as I read. Singularity is indeed clever. It is engaging and complex.

    There are some scenes that are decidedly intense and for mature audiences only. I am not a fan of gratuitous sex or violence in my literature. I do recognize and appreciate, however, when setting and character demands prevail. The scenes in this book fit the subject matter, the character, and the story appropriately. My reader’s caveat: consume this book knowingly to avoid surprise emotional triggers in this regard.

    For some readers, the disjointed unravelling of the narrative may prove to be frustrating. The unfolding actually reminded me a bit of that Christopher Nolan movie, Memento. Hann-Basquiat feeds you precisely what you need to know when you need to know it. Give in. Submit to the telling and let it surround you piece by piece until it completely envelops you. In the end, it will make perfectly irrational sense. And the end will leave you thinking for days… Fascinating.

    I often shy from anything suggestive of horror, the supernatural, even the dark psychological. I don’t read such things alone or in the dark (although I suspect that would greatly enhance the experience for the bold reader). The web of tales Hann-Basquiat and her co-conspirators weave is intricate and enticing. I found myself wanting to read straight through, but unable to do so. It’s that terrifying. It’s that good.

    Singularity surpasses a simple label of horror or psycho-thriller. It blends these with a good measure of metafiction and postmodernism. It will leave you questioning everything you believe about what it means to be real. Think you won’t enjoy something of this ilk? Don’t be so sure. Take a sip. You’ll be delightfully surprised to find it deliciously smooth, just like a good quality vodka.

    I received an advance copy of Singularity in exchange for an honest review.
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  • Kitt O'Malley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read ALL Their Works
    Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015
    I love everything by H.K. Abell who writes as Helena Hann-Basquiat & Jessica B. Bell. Singularity is both a novel and a collection of short stories. It is beautifully crafted and artfully woven. Read it. Read everything you can get your hands or eyes on that has been written by H.K. Abell/Helena Hann-Basquiat/Jessica B. Bell and their talented collaborators. You will not be disappointed.
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