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Sandwich-Making and Other Subplots

Die technik des sandwich-making dramas

Die technik des sandwich-making dramas

Like all great American novels, this novel will have numerous subplots, illustrated by the plot-lines diagram, including five thousand words devoted to a sandwich-making subplot in which a sandwich is systematically assembled and unassembled multiple times until …

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Character Sketch – Yog Soggoth Jr, Perceiver of the Mundane

Yog-Soggoth Jr is a native of the Vortex dimension. The dimension is home to Yog’s tribe of Old Ones, who devour the fried skin of their enemies, cooked the way Kassigtha used to make. While in the Human dimension he …

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Writing On Deck – The Metafiction Myth – Pt 1

A room full of writers writing

A room full of writers writing

Gerald entered the writing deck where many of the other guests were already busy developing his myth. Schlafen Ahab was not visible to the naked eye, but Holger Meins walked up and down and …

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Healthcare of the Old Ones, a Dental Plan

Nyarlathotep, Mighty Administrator of Ancient Health and Dental Plans

Nyarlathotep, Mighty Administrator of Ancient Health and Dental Plans
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Gerald pulled the document from Schlafen Ahab’s drawer and read:

As a member of the Old Ones community, one of the most important benefits you’ve earned is incomprehensible health care …

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Sorkinlogue: Dodging Skipping Zombies

Gerald, a cloned German terrorist, and a duck walked into a bar.

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The Zombie that Lives within Us

The clone raised his hand. “Barmann, zwei bourbons, ‘neat’.”

The German and Gerald walked briskly side by side, circling the barroom and …

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Ishmael Returns to Whale of a Motel Room

After the fiasco with the stampeding herd of chevrotains, Ishmael returned to his room at the Pequod.

Motel Run Like a Whaling Ship

Motel Run Like a Whaling Ship

The light flickered the way bad motel room lighting stereotypically does. Ishmael Barz pulled a slab …

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Moby Dick in Chopsticks Writing Style

Fiction writing style that features repetition and more repetition.

Tale of Whale

Tale of a Whale

The Chopsticks style was pioneered by Fred Schonell and popularized by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharpin of Dick and Jane fame. Its popularity peaked during the …

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Character Sketch – Sleepy Ahab

A character from my novel in progress.

Sleepy Ahab's Baader-Meinhof Clones

Sleepy Ahab’s Baader-Meinhof  Clones

Sleepy Ahab runs the motel, where the main character of the novel has been staying. The motel is located along highway 19. Sleepy Ahab has crazy Albert Einstein hair

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