Literary
World-Mart
genre: literary/science fiction
influences: Vonnegut, Orwell, Bradbury
draft: second
first draft completed: 2007
length: approximately 70,000 words
status: currently marketing
The year is 2084. The bulk of the population is now divided into two classes: Corps, who enjoy a middle-class lifestyle, and Marts, who are destined to spend their working-class days in colorful polo shirts, working in service and retail. Resources have become scarce, due to the effects of global warming and antibiotic-resistant disease. Experimentation in germ-line therapy has resulted in a “deviant” subclass population (although the only real difference is their eye color), who are born into lives of manual labor and utter squaller. Complacency and corporate hierarchy control and confound the masses, run by the elite few, collectively referred to as "Corporate."
Meet George Irwin, Defense Manager for the local Law-Corp, his wife Virginia, a Call Center Associate for Communications-Corp, and children Shelley and Kurt, fifteen and seven, respectively. George remembers a time before the Big Climate Change, back when the airlines were still in business and people still drove their own cars. His children, however, only remember an indoor world of endless reconstruction, public shuttles, water “recyclers,” and limited energy. The world has changed dramatically over George’s lifetime, but he still believes in the American Dream . . . that is until one fateful day, when his world suddenly gets turned even further upside-down.
Cinderella Eyes
genre: literary/narrative nonfiction
influences: Woolf, Tan, Burroughs
draft: fourth
first draft completed: 2007
length: approximately 78,000 words
status: not currently marketing
Cinderella Eyes is the first-person account of my literary persona, Ann Anon. As Ann struggles to come to terms with her own personal demons, she revisits the roller coaster that has been her life, sharing her family’s scarring dynamics and her most humbling mishaps. Along the way, she happens upon a few interesting, sometimes comical, insights and epiphanies, learning how to forgive and love both her family and herself, despite their numerous dysfunctions. All names have been changed to protect the innocent ... from the family's horribly unpredictable wrath.
Myths of Gods
genre: literary/science fiction
influences: Stapledon, Wells, Orwell
draft: third
first draft completed: 2006
length: approximately 60,000 words
status: redrafting
A serious religious and political commentary, Myths of Gods explores the effects of myth and faith on the whole of society. An allegory with a twist, the story takes place before all recorded history, before Jesus, Buddha, or any other known religious leader, during God’s first, and terribly flawed, intervention with humanity. Loosely following various components of popular modern religions, Myths of Gods
The story follows the lives of five prophets who, together, embody the whole of God. The prophets each possess one of God's five eternal attributes: mind, matter, time, life, and death. Born into a dying, self-destructive society, the story follows God's first attempt at intelligent life, as well as Its first attempt at saving Its beloved creations from themselves. What It does not anticipate, however, is the role humanity -- and human fallibility -- would play on the individuals It embodies. Myths of Gods challenges the reader to consider the myth in all religion and to contemplate the role faith truly does play in one’s life, both personally and socially.
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