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STORIES THAT

RESONATE

Delve into the world of literary fiction with J Bryan Michel. Explore exciting excerpts and engage with the narratives that captivate and inspire.

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THE DEVIL YOU KNOW

About My Latest Project

When ninety-six-year-old socialist firebrand Nina Isakson moves into the Good Oaks retirement home in Dallas, Texas, she recognizes the man who abandoned her and their unborn daughter seventy years earlier in Munich, 1914. A man she suspects became Adolph Hitler.

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MEET J.

Born in California, raised in Texas, now living in the Mountains of North Carolina, J Bryan Michel writes fiction inspired by the wonder and absurdities of life.

MORE THIS WAY!

"Don't be afraid to be confused.
Try to remain permanently confused. 
Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, Amen.

-- George Saunders --

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