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Elynia is a lyrically-charged debut that dissects the moments that make up the lives of its interrelated characters.  The title story examines four separate generations of nameless characters whose varied struggles unfold in a kaleidoscope of human need. An immigrant shoe-man works away his life in a dying town, witnessing his son wrongly arrested by a man whose shoes he regularly shines.  And that son watches his friend betray the memory of a departed mother by stealing her now-sacred makeup for a drunken joke.  That friend then marries a waitress who secretly loves another man who is perpetually stuck atoning for his past by meticulously refurbishing a house.  The atoner was once a painter whose works were rejected by his one love, the granddaughter of the woman who boards the hapless shoe-man after a fire takes everything from him.  Being the only one named, Elynia paradoxically emerges as the greater obscurity that envelopes the nameless yet distinguished DAVID MICHAEL BELCZYK is a lawyer and engineer, a graduate of George Washington University and Notre Dame.  He is the author three volumes of poetry, Sometimes Form, Sometimes Vessel, Call It Perpetual and (forthcoming) The Unexpected Guest on Culturatti Ink.  David's debut story collection Elynia and Other Stories will be released on Dark Coast Press in Spring 2011.  The title story, Elynia, is a lyrically-charged debut that examines four separate generations of nameless characters whose varied struggles unfold in a kaleidoscope of human need.