title: Between the Cushions: A spare words poetry collection.
author:  Erin Lee 
description: Erin Lee is a dark fiction author and therapist chasing a crazy dream one crazy reality at a time. She is the author of Crazy Like Me, a novel published in 2015 by Savant Books and Publications,Wave to Papa, 2015, by Limitless Publishing, LLC and Nine Lives (2016). Shes also the author of Alters, Host, and Merge of the Lola, Party of Eight Series, When Im Dead, Take Me As I Am, Losing Faith and 99 Bottles. She also penned Her Name Was Sam, an LGBTQ awareness novella. Other titles include her Diary of a Serial Killer Series with Zombie Cupcake Press, From Russia With Love with Bella Tulip Publishing and Greener, Book Three of the Escape From Reality Series. Lee holds a masters degree in psychology and works with at-risk families and as a court-appointed special advocate for children. Lee writes the wrongs of a flawed system to provide awareness and, hopefully, someday, create change. While working as an unpaid intern during her training to become a therapist, she often found money between the couch cushions for parking. That extra change got her through graduate school, just as spare words get her through the often-challenging works she does.
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  [Also by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir](toc.htm#also)
  
  
  _Butterflies in November_  
   _The Greenhouse_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # **HOTEL  
  SILENCE**  
  Translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon
  
  
  ## **AUĐUR AVA  
  ÓLAFSDÓTTIR**
  
  
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  Copyright © 2016 by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
  
  
  English translation copyright © 2018 by Brian FitzGibbon
  
  
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  Excerpt from “For My Lover, Returning to His Wife” from _The Complete Poems of
  Anne Sexton._ Copyright © 1967, 1968, 1969 by Anne Sexton. Reprinted by
  permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All Rights
  Reserved; excerpt from “Football Season Is Over” by Hunter S. Thompson used by
  permission of the Gonzo Trust; excerpts from “One Art” from _Poems_ by
  Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 2011 by The Alice H. Methfessel Trust.
  Publisher’s Note and compilation copyright © 2