Ocean into Cotton Candy
Ocean into Cotton Candy
is a continual exploration into the fringes of society and the thoughts
those fringes may have. It delivers the personal heartbreak of missed
opportunities and lost affairs. It alludes war and accidents and illness
to arrive at the single park side sunset of realization. It challenges
morality, and it becomes morality. In “An Easy Escape” the heroine
addresses the benefits of a world without electricity. And in the title
story “Ocean into Cotton Candy” a yellow toothed stranger ponders the
worth of vast quantities of warm gin during his trek from the midwest to
the ocean.
225 Pages. 47,000 Words.
The Errors of Fabric
The
homeless are losing their heads in Denver, literally. A seasoned
veteran of the streets is lead investigator's only clue. Eventually,
the beheadings are nothing more than the casualties of turf war. And
the seasoned veteran of the street? He knows the world has ended in
1993.
The fabric is
stretched over twenty years and thwarted at two generations: loss,
teenage pregnancy, redemption and abortion. There is no reality more
than this: how can she look herself in the mirror when she has fulfilled
the destiny her mother could not?
237 Pages. 49,000 Words.
Mascaras Y Munecas
Throwing
things off bridges is more than metaphor, it's the simply hold then
launch then splash and away it goes, it's possibility. More possible
still descending the dark stairwell during terrorist bombings, and
entire love affair blooms from contact through conception. On the road
home, a man can change, no matter how often he comes home, no matter how
barbaric his mask.
Sometimes being accepted and sometimes pushed away, the mask fritters his days from B.C. and D.F. He sometimes finds a doll and sometimes is not disappointed. The road home, for the mask takes more time than he may have, the amount of time between vengeance and forgiveness.
256 Pages. 56,000 Words.
Sand and Asbestos
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| Coming in 2014 |
The motion of her
retraction was barely noticeable due to the fatness of her body. Her
hands were swollen, each knuckle of each finger immobilized by the
thickness of their mass. Her fingers stuck together, practically, and
became less like the digits of a glove, but more like a mitten. It was
intentional, it was beauty, and it was the model of the aesthetic. Her
massive palm moved over his shoulder, clearing the area of the shoulder
blade first, and then rounding the top. Her sausage sized thumb, less
and less opposable to the rest of her hand day by day, brushed across
the rolls of his neck. The sensation did not go unnoticed. “Ulla,” he
said. “I must,” he said. She looked up to him, she raised the lids of
her small eyes which were dots in her otherwise rounded face. “I want
to, you must know that.”
In a world where the mundane
and the unintelligent are rewarded with jobs and fatness, the people are
easily controlled. Laziness on the part of the world's residents have
willingly reduced free speech to nothing, free will to abyss and a
freely elected government to three panel members. The utopia is bliss,
the dystopia is the utopia gone wrong. The mistopia results from not
looking. Serialized in 2011 at Sophia Ballou.
Just Then the Moment
Just Then the Moment
is the alienation of artists in a post industrial world. In the ruins
of the industrial United States, present day, this group of Bohemians
find solace in creation and hedonism. Despite the decaying factories
around them, and the rail line that separates them from the modern
consumer world, Just Then the Moment is ultimately a love story.
A
welder, a handyman, a violinist, a laborer-bum, a shut-in and a fraud
carve out their niche only for one cosmic collision that destroys their
world. In a world overrun by materialism and greed, a sour reflection in
the industrial abyss does create new ways to sprout different thoughts,
inventive ways of seeing, softer ways to love. Ultimately, the dawn of
how the world works may become too strong.
235 Pages. 49,000 Words.
