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    La Chanson de l'Observation
    La Chanson de l'Observation
    La Chanson de l'Observation
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    La Chanson de l'Observation

    By Bernard Cox

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    It’s never a good idea for sociologists to fall in love with someone they’re studying–especially if they’re alien sociologists.

    Node AR1x40 lives his life on Earth as human Javier Flores, observing and reporting on human behavior as part of The Commonality’s sociological study. When he meets Theo Zedek, a pastry chef and owner of the La Chanson Cafe, Node AR1x40 violates the main parameter of the experiment—he falls in love. And their love may ruin far more than his career.

    Told as a scientific research paper, La Chanson de l’Observation was first published in Issue 8 of A cappella Zoo and was chosen by guest editor Gina Ochsner for Issue 10, The Best of A cappella Zoo: A Five-Year Retrospective.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBernard Cox
    Release dateFeb 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301875276
    La Chanson de l'Observation
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    Bernard Cox

    Bernard M. Cox is a graduate of the MFA Creative Writing program at Roosevelt University. He has taught screenwriting, literature and composition; curated an experimental music concert series called FeedBack; ran a staged reading series for screenwriters; and served on the Board of Directors of the University City Arts League in Philadelphia. He is the former Assistant Artistic Director for the Tamale Hut Café Reading Series in North Riverside—thcreadingseries.wordpress.com. His writing has appeared in A cappella Zoo, Blood and Lullabies, Collective Fallout, Crack the Spine, Red Lightbulbs, and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Transplanted once again, Bernard is currently acclimating to the constant, oppressive San Diego sunlight as he is partial to the part-shade conditions of the East Coast and Midwest. When he is not writing, making music, or reading, he is often wandering the countryside looking for insects and dreaming about Philadelphia. Visit him at bernardmcox.wordpress.com.

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      La Chanson de l'Observation - Bernard Cox

      La Chanson de l’Observation

      by

      Bernard M. Cox

      Cover designed by Sabine Krauss

      Copyright © 2012 by Bernard M. Cox

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      La Chanson de l’Observation was first published in Issue 8 of A cappella Zoo and was chosen by guest editor Gina Ochsner for Issue 10, The Best of A cappella Zoo: A Five Year Retrospective.

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      With Theo asleep it was easier. With him asleep, he couldn’t ask why I came into his life only to leave. With him asleep, I could be selfless and not hold onto him.

      This, my twenty-eighth iteration, may be my last. Soon I would no longer be able to feel his arms around me, or the flitting of my heart when

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