Fiction Scribe

Transgressive Fiction can be as in your face as it sounds, or more subtle, looking under the covers while ignoring what is on the surface.

Combining satirical characters and topics once taboo in literature, but turned into humor is how my new book, my double novel, Bleach|Blackout reads. For me personally, it’s more getting to the inner souls of my characters with no detours. Ignore the table in the corner, turning the reader to the corner where a couple is casually smoking a joint and commenting on the lack of drugs at the party. The mood of the room is now both clear and not clear, wanting the reader to want to continue going back to the corner to see if anything has changed. Everyone can picture the couple, they don’t need me as the story teller to them how to think.

The enjoyment of writing this type of fiction is taking a normally dire situation (man walking through a door with a loaded shotgun) and find the humor, or irony. What if the normally violent drug dealer becomes the hero by shooting the man walking through the door? Bleach|Blackout, explores the muddy reality, dirty part of the mind.

Both books explore a group of people living in the moment, yet not necessarily aware they are in the moment, but rather wasting time to get to the next point in their lives. Is it boredom, or more a feel of today’s generation and lack of cause, or motivation to find a cause? Bleach is more the type of in your face read that forces you to either accept or not accept the lifestyle being led, there really no room for the in between. Blackout details more of these same characters pulling from their past and being forced to use instinct, rather than wait for life. A story about living.

Bleach opens during the last 60 seconds of 2003 in a bathroom where a girl lay dying and a jaded 30-year-old named Jeremy, who navigates the reader through the endless repulsiveness of the world, watches. Before diving into an explanation of what is going on, Jeremy doubles back eight days where you find him in the office ready to embark on a vacation back home to the Midwest. The question is whether Jeremy makes it back to New York.

The entire story builds up to the climax of the “The Party” on New Year’s Eve where all the men are dressed as prostitutes, all the women look like pimps and decadence and debauchery dictate the rules. Everything seems to be spiraling out of control, and Jeremy realizes there are no guarantees for him or anyone else.

Blackout picks up two years after Bleach in Las Vegas where Stoner and friends are celebrating his bachelor party complete with strippers and crack cocaine. The ride home is blurry and the next morning in Los Angeles brings a surprise when Stoner’s friends, Chip and Jeremy, wake to find police officers and a dead body they are allegedly responsible for, but neither can recall.

These two stories, and the characters, challenge the reader to new lows, or highs depending how you look at it. The muddy reality, dirty parts of the mind. Regardless, Bleach|Blackout will make you laugh while taking you on a ride inside a trash can littered with pop culture.

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