F(r)iction(s)

“F(r)ictions” or, for those who don’t get it, “Fiction” is a category that contains stories and stuff pertaining to stories. Here’s a short list…

Short Stories:

• The Sister of my Sister’s Best Friend
• Dead Bodies
• Empty Stomach
• Destiny
• Moon Walking or The Second Burial of Man

Novels:

LOP

Still working on this one.

What does LOP stand for?

• Letter of Proposal.
• It is the name of a female Cyclops befriended by the protagonist.
• A glob of goo found on the side of a road.

The poorly written synopsis is available here and here is chapter five .

Engagement

Chapter one is available here.

I’m not sure how often or if this is done at all, but in this novel I used end-notes to help with the contextual translation of German words. You can read about it here.

I began writing this in the late 90s. It takes place in Germany and is a strange thriller that I tried to sell to agents by calling it a cross between Bukowski and Grisham. (Stop laughing! Start crying. It’s stupefying how one has to talk to lit agents or publishers regarding work that is labored over.)

Chad and the Avocado Conspiracy

Whoopee for you weblog readers. You’ll find the first four chapters here. Also, don’t miss the Podcast version which I’m slowly recording. “Chad…” is my second attempt at writing a novel. I wrote it while living in Dusseldorf in 1994. I typed more than a thousand A4 pages on a manual typewriter in six weeks. Seriously. No notes or planning. It just came out. It took me longer to retype it into a computer. Result…

It sucks. I mean, how can anyone in their right mind type so much only to be told by a really smart lit agent that unless I learn English grammar it might be better to hang up the typewriter? Boy, was he (she?) right. It all pains even worse because of the fact I’m American born and raised but now an expat in Germany and I can’t even write my mother language. Oh well.

An Excerpt

I don’t really have a title for my first novel. It’s in a bundle on a shelf and I have since lost the data file. Here and here a few parts of it.

-tgs-