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Marianne G. Petrino

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Born

Bronx, NY, The United States

Website

https://www.wattpad.com/user/MGPetrino

Twitter

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Genre

Young Adult, Paranormal, Travel

Member Since

October 2015

URL

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One of these days, I will get around to writing a proper bio. For the moment, all you need to know about me is that I was born in the Bronx and that created everything that I am.

My two novels, Coffee with Thunderbolts and A Star Rose in Cerami, are urban metaphysical novels, but you could also designate them as urban fantasy/paranormal or visionary fiction with a dash of chick and a side of boomer lit. My final novel, Silver Hooves in the Darkness, is a Young Adult Equine Fantasy (very genre busting).

My travel memoir, Full Tank & No Damage: Three on a Sicilian Odyssey, documents my trip to Sicily with my husband and my mother in 2010. The story appeals to everyone, but especially those of the boomer generation, who clearly can see the endin ...more

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I will be taking down my wattpad account next year, and then, my work will really evaporate into the ether. Just giving you all a heads up. It has been a fun, but anxious ride.

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	The Future Is Short by Jot Russell, Paula Friedman, Carrol Fix (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Future is Short: Science Fiction in a Flash - Volume 2 by Jot Russell (Compiled by), Carol Shetler (Editor), J.J. Alleson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coffee with Thunderbolts 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silver Hooves in the Darkness 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Star Rose in Cerami 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Full Tank & No Damage: Three on a Sicilian Odyssey 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Star Rose in Cerami 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She had finally learned the significance of the ending of the Mayan calendar: Elvis and Liberace were clearly coming back from the dead.”
― Marianne G. Petrino

tags: coffee-with-thunderbolts

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“And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

tags: flight, memory

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“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

tags: death

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