Nate Barker

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“Paradise Lost - Love Falling” by Nate Barker

Submitted to Contest #248

John Love stepped forward and he was falling. That step, those sixteen inches, which, on any given day, would carry him from one room in his apartment to another, became the stride over a threshold into another world. Falling. The blurring sheen of The Towers sped by. A forest of steel and glass brilliance that had housed all his desires. Sliver trunks, with crowning tops of refuge and carnality, kissed where the sky met the blue. Their roots, deep in the ground and the past, were lost in the brown of The Fogs below, where a mass of humanity...

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Nate Barker was born in Waterford, Connecticut. He began writing fiction while in middle school when his father brought home the families first computer, a beat up, used Apple Macintosh Plus. Gaining a wealth of experiences working in television, marketing, non-profits, and other various fields, Nate’s fiction bends towards the fantastic and introspective. He has written nonfiction pieces for The Mennonite, as well as contributed to the book Thank You For Asking, Conversing with Young Adults about the Future Church. Nate currently lives in the small town of Croghan, NY at the foothills of the Adirondacks. He is married with 3 children, a dog, cat and plenty of local wildlife; from coyotes and mink to porcupines and black flies. You can find him online at: www.thebullybeard.com