Rhonda Riley – Author

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You hear two things at once–the facts and the story teller’s heart… So go ahead. Tell me any story you need to.
Adam, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

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The self is the gift of the other.
Mikhail Bakhtin

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The delicate bones of their arms and ribs absorb his voice, shattering their knowledge of what is possible.
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

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We keep ourselves from drowning by offering each other small cups of water.
Evelyn Hope, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

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. . . ideas, rules, processes, connections, and patterns. They are all invisible, yet we believe them to be as real as any object. Amazonian forest spirits are analogous, perhaps, to Western reality dreams such as money, time, and nation-states.
David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors

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Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855

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The genes I carry, the clothes I wear, the food I eat all have come through the hands of others. Even these words I write now, my vocabulary, are not only mine. They are an agreement, a social contract between the two of us.
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

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The consolation of the imaginary is not imaginary consolation.
Overheard, anonymous

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. . . before all mysteries, surrender is inevitable. We all give way to our true nature.
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

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Truth becomes a fiction when the fiction’s true: Real becomes not-real when unreal’s real.
Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber, 1791

About Me

I was an independent child by default. I was, by far, the youngest of three children in my family. My parents worked hard in a factory and a furniture store. They were tired and often left me to my own devices.

The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

“Riley’s debut novel fuses a lyrical, tender love story with a sophisticated depiction of a supernatural sentient being…

Writings and Ramblings

Join me on my travels via photos, poetry, essays and stories

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