I finished writing my first novel. Great! Now I can spend hours printing off copies of my manuscript. Then mail'em off. Will life's bullshit ever end? I'm so fed up I've started the process anew with: "Kaleidoscope Medley"
_____T. S. Eliot meets the social commentary of Vonnegut.
_____At its peak Ancient downtown Rome’s population was almost 50% slaves. And here too, now in the United States, we’ve the largest incarcerated population of any nation in the world. It used to be in the eighties the Russians—or the USSR—and China had us beat. We merely held the highest incarcerated amount ratio-wise. But not now! No, the highest incarcerated population—land of the free, ha!
_____The events take place on a parallel Earth where the United States’ government finds itself in an economic catastrophe owing to both high incarceration costs and spending far too much over several altercations in the Middle East. The nation nearing bankruptcy, along comes some business professor out of Harvard who discovered a solution: Instead of spending fortunes on our incarcerated population why not make use of them as a profitable resource, and with the current presidential administration’s backing, legislation is coaxed to agree. It’s successful and government becomes proactive in finding more to lock up and work. Meanwhile an asteroid collides with the Earth as it’s only a matter of time, bound to occur in the future statistically and would you believe it but one does finally! and falls unto Pakistan. The Pakistan government erroneously interprets this as an Indian nuclear strike, and retaliates with nukes of their own. Eventually cooler heads prevail. Reason wins out as both parties realize their mistakes luckily before humanity becomes annihilated. This creates a permanent overcast over the entire globe adding unbearable stresses thru say food shortages and dwindling global resources.
_____The main character comes to light for reader just prior all turmoil. This seemingly insignificant slacker is found in an underwhelming situation within none too serious a context, just hanging with friends trying to have fun. He enjoys recreational drug use and quietly researches techniques for manufacturing LSD. After the calamity befalls the world, he ends up caught and thrown into this terrifying system of incarcerated enslavement while the rest of the world becomes more hostile and irrational. _____Unknowingly the main character eventually becomes a Nelson Mandela figure with circumstance leading incredibly to this unsuspecting man saving the world.
_____I graduated High School here in Maine having attended the same institute as none other than Stephen King. That’s not to imply that I posses any of his talents necessarily but I do hope there’s “something in the water.” While in High School I belonged to a music group with my bother playing Sax and sending his horn’s signal through all sorts of crazy guitar effects and distortions. We were heavily influenced by the Smashing Pumpkins and gained popularity becoming just barely an up and coming regional act when we relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts to make it big out of Boston where my brother attended the Berkeley School of Music. _____Our band, for many personal reasons, collapsed. I returned to Maine and studied as an English Major for two years at a community college before deciding to drop out to free myself from the time consuming combination of making a living and schooling to do what I really love and write. _____Besides the completed manuscript I’m currently pitching, I’m in the midst of two projects, both works of fiction. One is a novel following all sorts of incredible and entertaining adventures of a Senile man who wonders away from his nursing home and the other is a plot-connected anthology of short stories with the main character being a homeowner insurance salesman who finds his life in one moment turned completely upside down.
mike....I really want to read Guilts Humor, It sounds to me a like a prophetic story, in the sense that it sounds a little bit too familiar...Ive heard of authors writing their future. So it gave me a huge feeling a deja vu. Let me know if you can get me a copy or something. Take care, oh and listen to those tracks on headphones or something with a subwoofer. The low end really makes the tracks.
I want to crawl inside your candycorn with you.
Love that song!
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