S J Garrett

S J Garrett is an amateur poet and novelist from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also a retired industrial electrician from the former Stelco Inc., husband and father of three adult children and currently cohabitating with a Siamese cat and a Border Collie mixed canine in an old brick house in the Hammer. Like some, his life immediately started out different from most others when he was adopted into a family of eight brothers and sisters who all lived in another old brick home, but it all worked out quite nicely because as an unlikely a hero that he was in his own life-story he still managed to make some good choices in life - just ask his wife.

The Novels

A Hyme For A Dyme

Brothers By Numbers

Sweet Anomalies

Beautiful Beautiful

The Waterman

The Some Of Many

The Couriers

The Poetry

Selected Poetry

The Back Page

The Back Page & Etc.

Welcome To The Comforting Chair

Where Verse and Prose Connect

Welcome to my web page, and as I've said many times in the past: the intention of this web page is for it to be a simple venue or forum to display my creative writing endeavours.

Following the publishing of the "Some of Many", I had planned on taking a long break from writing. It wasn't that I was tired of writing; it was more for a need of a reset of sorts. I felt at the time that I might have just another one or two books left in me and the plan was that I might return to writing some general fiction again with perhaps a dash or two of magical realism in the mix, but it was not to become the case because almost immediately I became fixated on writing a new science fiction story concerning two voices; one of Hugh and the other: Manny.

I had many doubts at first whether I wanted to return to the speculative science fiction genre that frankly has made up the bulk of my narrative output so far, but the Hugh and Manny ideas - they kept coming and the note taking began growing - well exponentially. So here we are in June 2025 with a new S J Garrett speculative science fiction novel that is short, sweet, and if I might add: rather provocative. The general fiction writing that I hoped to revisit at the time was simply going to have to wait a few more years.

And regarding this new novel, I like to refer to "The Couriers" as a premise novel. And I know perfectly well that most all stories have a premise but in this case I think I'm asking the reader for more buy-in to the story than they might be used to. I also might add that there are many famous story tellers from the past and the present, the cinema and the literary world that I tip my hat to in my telling of my own original story of alien technology, but I'm not going to name names though they are however my inspiration, nonetheless.

So, dear readers let it be known that - Anima: is an alien technology that presents itself in three human forms here on earth - as prepared, summoned, and inhabited couriers.

Once again, cheers to all who think they are creative, those intuitive types - who incidentally are all potential poets and novelists of great substance.

Thank you all for your patronage.

S J Garrett / June 2025

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