List of Fictions

Youth.

1. What’s in a name 1.
2. Look what I found.
3. The mark of a good lawyer.
4. The silverleaf tree.
5. Pretending à la mode.
6. How to catch a bus.
7. Pretend you’re a retard.
8. The woman in the dumpster 1.
9. When fear fails.
10. What do those lights look like to you?
11. Boner 1 – the bone of invisibility.
    Inspired by a passage in T.H. White’s The Once and Future King.
12. The crush.
13. The Talk and the tornado.
14. What’s in a name 2 – pastime paradise.
    Title taken from Stevie Wonder’s song of the same name.
15. For whom the siren tolls.
16. The night monster.
17. Petty peddlers.
    Inspired in part by Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven.”
18. The culprit 1.
    Inspired in part by Anton Chekhov’s story of the same name.
    
    1980.
19. GAStronomy 101.
20. Bleeding season.
21. Veronica.
22. We shall overcome.
23. The unremembered moments.
    Inspired by Iris Murdoch in a passage in Under the Net.
24. Helter swelter: vignettes on Detroit busses.
25. Coney god.
26. To think that it happened on Trumbull Street.
    Inspired by Dr. Seuss, “To Think That It Happened on Mulberry Street.”
27. It’s a good life.
28. A good lesson for the kids. 
29. Howdy.
30. The adultery case.
31. Looking good.
32. Not waving but drowning.
    Inspired by Stevie Smith’s poem of the same name.
33. The rube, snortin’ it.
34. Appointment on Telegraph Road.
    Inspired by “The Appointment in Samarra” as retold by W. Somerset Maugham.
35. The gargoyle.
36. The culprit 2.  
37. I’m not your friend 1.
38. Don’t bet on it.
39. Canned heat blues.
40. Two archetypes.
41. What happened at the RNC.
    Based on a written account in the early 1990s.
42. The Chimera.
43. The trouble with trickles.
    Inspired by “The Trouble with Tribbles,” Star Trek season 2, episode 15.
44. The difference between a fool and a hero.
45. I’m not your friend 2.
    Inspired by The Alan Parsons Project, “Breakdown.”
46. Waiting for Bardot.
     Inspired in part by Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot.
47. Pretending to be a person.
48. Show me your panties.
49. I’m not your friend 3 – scared sacred.
50. Grunts at the crossing.
    Inspired by Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
51. Driven buggy.
    Inspired by Franz Kafka, “Metamorphosis.”
52. Kingly continuity:
    The history leading to “Exploding the Moment.”
53. Exploding the moment.
    Inspired by a passage in T.H. White’s The Once and Future King. 
54. I’m washing my windows.
55. Tar tar.
    Inspired in part by Joel Chandler Harris, “Tar-baby.”
56. Busted.
57. The Rolling Gees.
    Inspired by the Rolling Stones, “Emotional Rescue.”
58. When the wheels fall off.
59. The dance.
    Inspired by William Carlos Williams, “The Dance.”
60. Scaling a bluff.
    Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat.
61. Star-crossed.
62. Detroit’s Main Vein.
63. Urban camping.
64. Hail Hecate.
65. What does that cloud look like to you?
66. Seeing eye to eye.
    Part 2 inspired in part by Steely Dan, “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.”
67. Backsliding.
68. So sorry.
69. Playing Cupid.
70. The woman in the dumpster 2.
     Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World.”
71. Pendulum.
    
72. Yelling Man.
    Inspired by Leslie Silko, “Yellow Woman.”
73. Negative images and other paradoxes.
74. Jack and the beanshock.
75. The rube at the Garden.
    Inspired in part by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini’s Garden.”
76. The man of letters.
77. Black Elk pukes.
    Inspired by Black Elk Speaks.
78. The woman with no face.
79. The King of Careful.
80. Justice rides a sloe horse.
81. Your (m)ass is bangin’.
    Inspired by The Human League, “Empire State Human.”
82. Pride in Detroit.
83. Boner 2 – Cindereally.
    Inspired by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Cinderella,” and by Robert Graves, “Down, Wanton, Down.”
84. The power of one.

Epilogue.

About the author.

Written by K.G. Jones
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