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The Week I Was Stalked
The narrator writes about how she was stalked by a Barry Manilow song. Just a short story idea.
The Great War of 1979
Semi-fictionalized tale of my last year in Jackson, Mississippi. Told in the style of a military history account of the grade-school War Between The Girls And The Boys, with the character that is me-but-not-me as leader of the boys, and with all our imagined things, the time machine, Bloody Mary, the tunnel to the other side of the world, the garden spider, and the wood ducks and who had more control over the dogs' affections. Yeah, so I'm vaguely inspired by Edwin Mullhouse. Sometime around chapter 4: "I was an unlikely King of the Boys, long-haired and nipply as I was." Is this too predictable? You tell me.
The Conspiracy of 1947
A semi-fictionalized account of the 1947 federal antitrust cases against GM, Mack Truck, Firestone, and Standard Oil, in which they were found guilty of, well, basically destroying America's trolley systems, but were only fined $5,000 each. Just because this whole episode in our history fascinates me.