Shawn Kerivan

Shawn Kerivan

About

Shawn Kerivan is a writer, teacher, and innkeeper in Northern Vermont.  He teaches English and creative writing at Community College of Vermont.  His first book, the short story collection Name the Boy, was published in 2007.  His most recent book is a memoir of innkeeping called The Innkeeper's Husband.  It's available through Amazon as a Kindle download.

New Alpha Rising: Ascension Part I

New Alpha Rising: Ascension Part I

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<p>Countless years ago, measured in thousands, the Gods came first. Monstrous creations were born of their frivolity. Like the Gods, some of the creations were peaceful, others not. Their duty to preserve the earth completed once more, however, the day came that the Gods had to leave earth. Unleashed and with loose regulation, the abominable creations left behind multiplied. In their midst, another conception came to be, and his kind would exist absolutely outside of the God’s purview.<br />Unmated, alone, and untrusting of others, Chatran was charged to go to a place and protect the father of a great child, yet unborn. This duty, however, was unknown to the most cognizant part of Chatran. Only the Beast, who resided within him, knew. As a result, the Beast led Chatran to Walhalla, North Dakota. Although his initial charge was to protect the father he found there, Chatran also gained a mate and Pack. With them, Chatran also found a new way forward, and started on a course that would lead to – New Alpha Rising: Ascension.</p>

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Read what others are saying about Name the Boy:<br /><br /><br />Shawn Kerivan’s Name the Boy is an emotionally raw, often cathartic collection of short stories about brotherly love, brotherly rage, and the sins of the fathers.  The combination of a delightfully droll voice and a hairpin storytelling style can give you the shivers.  This is a highly accomplished literary debut.<br /><br />~Richard Panek, author, Waterloo Diamonds, The Invisible Century and Seeing and Believing,<br /><br /><br />Name the Boy is peopled with boys trying to find their way in uncertain, unpredictable and sometimes-malevolent family and socio/economic settings. These stories, primarily of working people, of poverty, of alcohol, of violence, circle around and around the complex matrix of father/son relationships.  Shawn knows that we are not disembodied people, that we are created by our work, our worlds, our social status, and by the natural world around us, and all of that is right here in the stories, more or less causative yet always important, always central, always the context within which the often awful human drama plays itself out. <br /><br />~Nicola Morris, Ph.D.<br /><br /><br />Name the Boy will shake you.  These eleven short stories bear witness to fathers and sons.  There are horrors in this book and love that lives in a wide-open hand.  These stories have changed the way I see things.  Kerivan’s people move into your head and stay.  Their dialogue is relevant and their situations are both singular and familiar.  Shawn Kerivan is the man to watch.<br /><br />~Nancy McCurry, MFAW, Freelance Editor<br />