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Contemporary Adventure

Fire Exit

​By Morgan Talty

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Who wants to read a book about someone’s day-to-day life? I don’t know about your life, but I think a book about my own would be pretty boring; me going through my normal routine: work, family, friends. There really isn’t a whole lot there to make things exciting, to pull people into my story. No one wants to read a book about someone’s unextraordinary life. Well, Morgan Talty puts that statement to the test.

Charles Lamosway is a regular guy, sure he has had some challenges in his life, who hasn’t? He goes to work in his average job, visits his ailing mom, and wishes that he could spend time with his estranged daughter. These are all pretty normal things that your average Joe (or Charles) has to deal with on a daily basis. There is nothing extraordinary about Charles; he does not have supernatural powers, he isn’t some international man of mystery, he doesn’t go on some whirlwind adventure to “save the day.”  He is just a normal guy doing normal things, living his normal enough life.

This is where Morgan Talty does his magic. He made normal special!

Charles Lamosway is the centerpiece of this story about humanity and choices. Choices that we have, choices that others make, and choices where we really have no choice. All of these choices lead us to a point, we all live this same life, just with different choices made and different destinations. Talty created a connection between myself and this man whose life was so unlike my own but at the same time familiar.

What happens in Fire Exit? Not much, but at the same time everything.


*5 Stars