Speak Softly Among Icebergs by R. P. Singletary
Parlyaree Press, April 2026
What is love but not grief, or grief–love? Oh, to linger in the time-stand-still!
A book of words FOR LOVERS meant to be read aloud, according to its publisher.
THE AUTHOR agrees. Its multiple voices and aching perspectives in the same page or paragraph fight against being boxed-in or Other-ed. Even and especially by traditional narrative story arc (do our minds work that way), A.I. algorithm (ditto), (insert other cute, buzz phrase), publishing house agenda, formatting.
IT’S 2026, post-9/11, a latest global pandemic, and the rest better left unsaid today. Oughtn’t we slow down, read something new? Told in a different light.
And listen to what our future selves might tell us when they, too, lie awake at night.
As the novel’s introductory note makes clear, “The year is 2121.”
Who’ll be here then? And doing what….
440 pages, sigh