Dirty Red Kiss‘s Caulfield-esque narrator opens a window through which we can see humanity in a way that is beyond the capabilities of a more articulate, self-aware narrator. . . .
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False Memoir is an online fictional memoir. Everything about the author and the setting are true. The characters and the plot are fictional. False Memoir was inspired by the furtively fictionalized memoirs of such writers as James Frey (A Million Little Pieces), impossible to verify but desperately journalistic reminiscences like The Night of the Gun by David Carr, and . . .
The Khandroma Project is the personal, interactive and ever-evolving portfolio of Khandroma. The Khandroma Project has it all from experimental/hybrid fiction to poetry to stream-of-consciousness writing. Come on in, kick off your shoes, grab a cup of tea and get comfy! Comments, feedback, and constructive criticism are encouraged at The Khandroma Project where dialogue is nurtured. Art is a conversation; . . .
The cautionary tale of Buddy Best, Hollywood hack. . . .
Daily blog from an amnesiac bartender in Pittsburgh. Posts about his customer, his views on life, and strange dreams that hint at a previous life. Arched story with an endgame. . . .
A detective story taken out of time and space. The greatest monster in history and his accomplice must solve the riddle of a series of murders and why they are back . . . in downtown LA! . . .
An experimental novel combining crass commercialism, reader response, and time-tested themes like love, fear, and desperation. . . .
The Prodigals follows the lives of four troubled young men in Manchester – Brian, Howard, Declan and the novel’s anti-hero, Travis McGuiggan. It’s a book about friendship, religion, drinking, cruelty and love. It’s also a book about leaving home and returning. . . .
The house was full of packing-cases. Even the pretty lawn at the side was to pack up, stiffly and slowly, through the bare echoing November. The very robin that her father had so often made, with his own hands, more gorgeous than ever; amber and golden; here, at this bed of thyme, began to speak of carrots. The grand inarticulate . . .
The idea of the London Churches project is to visit every church in the City of London – plus a few extra – and use the visits as the basis of an online work. This isn’t a blog, and it certainly isn’t a historical or architectural guide. It’s a work of hyperfiction, but derived from real places, real experiences, real . . .
Fate’s Janitors is a serialized web novel that takes the reader inside the mental health and addiction industry, the people who clean up after fate. A perennial student must complete a counseling internship at an outpatient mental health clinic. His supervisor, a recovering addict, and former outlaw biker, is less than thrilled about having an intern tagging along. The . . .
Greg Halfman’s goal is to survive each day. Routine assails. Roommates annoy. His girlfriend tolerates. A showdown against nothing may or may not loom, but Greg struggles to cope either way. . . .
Dirty Red Kiss‘s Caulfield-esque narrator opens a window through which we can see humanity in a way that is beyond the capabilities of a more articulate, self-aware narrator. . . .
“Dirty Red Kiss” is a story about “dating, city life, and being in a band”. The narrator is an average guy who talks about his day, his attempts to date this girl he met in a club, and how he forms a band. We also get philosophical ramblings about life.
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I rated this story as worth a look because it’s well-written, with excellent use of varied sentence length, unique and memorable descriptions, and other technical goodness.
I didn’t rate this story any higher, though, because the content of the story doesn’t interest me at all. It’s modern day fiction about Greg, [more . . .]