title: Pattern of a Man & Other Stories
author:  James Still 
description: I consider James Still one of our best writers. -- <i> Harriette Simpson Arnow</i>
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  # [About James Stryker](9781760302481_tableofcontents.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  James Stryker lives in small-town Pennsylvania, though he grew up in Ogden,
  Utah. He relocated 2,000 miles to be with the love of his life (also a writer
  and more importantly, an expert maker of fajitas). He also shares a residence
  with a pack of pugs who keep his world full of strange scents and his sweaters
  covered in fur.
  
  
  
  
  
  James enjoys writing both short and novel-length pieces of speculative and
  literary fiction. Themes in his work focus toward diversity in the LGBTQ
  spectrum and the voice of underrepresented or misunderstood points of view.
  When not writing, James can be found reading, listening to opera at obscene
  decibels, wearing pedantic vests/sweaters with large buttons, and trying to
  figure out who in his neighborhood has fabric softener that smells like Dr.
  Pepper.
  
  
  
  
  
  Until he is able to do nothing but write (Walden with Wi-Fi), James is part of
  the leadership team at a customer service center w