Content: sexuality

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Koda Rose Grady comes of age in the shadow of her legendary musician father. This is a novelette, not a novel; I'm just posting it as a novel to keep the different parts together. No chapters, but I will try to stop at logical points. :) Thank you in advance, everyone.

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Siobhan Doyle struggles to reconcile her faith and sexuality following the death of her tyrannical father. UPDATE 3-18-12: I have disabled chapters while I focus on rewrites. I'm sorry for those who were following the story, but I tend to be a bit of an erratic writer and the rewrites are where I want to focus right now. Eventually, I will have a completed manuscript. Thank you everyone who has stuck with this and offered me their invaluable input and advice. NOTE TO NEW READERS: please begin with chapter one!!! You will only be lost if you don't. :) ALSO, I don't visit the forums regularly anymore, so if you have a message for me please feel free to email me at nisslj [at] sage [dot] edu. Thank you! :)

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Hi everyone.

I've been working on this novel for quite a while now (nearly 10 years!) and finally it's starting to come together as I imagined it and I'm confident enough in it to start getting some feedback!

It's actually a mixture of literary fiction and sci-fi, and although the summary below makes it sound more sci-fi there are actually plenty of literary fiction chapters (mainly about the relationship between Michael, Dylan and Sophie), so I've decided to mark it as literary fiction.

It would probably appeal only to people who also enjoy science fiction though, or at least science related topics

Here's a summary from a query letter I drafted for it:

When Michael Garrison enlisted the help of a mysterious organisation to save his work on genetic modification of the human immune system, he never would have imagined that he would become responsible for helping create an entirely new breed of human that was potentially going to wipe out the old, selfish, less empathetic model.

Before doing so though he has to try to save the mothers of his highly modified fotesus from what’s growing inside of them, who have immune systems so advanced they’re attacking their own hosts.

If only he hadn’t told his environmentalist swinger of a best friend Dylan about what he was involved in, and if only he hadn’t had an affair with Dylan’s struggling artist of a girlfriend Sophie, then maybe information about his project wouldn’t have been leaked to the press and maybe his own company wouldn’t now be so desperate to stop him.

Will he learn from the affair, overcome his own selfishness, and save the perfectly altruistic, disease resistant but potentially lethal to homo-sapiens genetically modified children, will he destroy his own creation, or will he be locked in prison for the rest of his life for crimes against humanity?

PERFECTIBLE ANIMALS is a work of literary/science fiction written from three different points of view: Michael, Dylan and Sophie’s.

Thank you in advance for any feedback!

Tom.

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Humor about aging and sexuality Bits of truths ... feedback wanted? The sound of laughter! Knee slaps! Spewing of liquid from mouths!!! Coffee.. beer... hopefully not expensive Port!

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The grottos of New York City can be a terrifying place for any twenty-five year old, especially for a recent Ivy League drop-out, especially when you’ve been spoon-fed caviar since the cradle. In his final year at Amherst, Ethan Elliot—privileged heir to the QuikClean dynasty—flees New England, abandons a promising future at a top financial firm and moves into a loft on the outskirts of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in hopes of finding something “greener.� What he finds is anything but. Instead, he’s hurtled far from the boroughs of New York on a life-altering, cross-country, roller-coaster ride into the bowels of Middle America with Jules and Wolfgang, his just-as-lost tour guides, each of them towing their own trunk-full of emotional “drag-age.� They take off in a derelict Chevy Chevelle expecting to find Jules’ deceased biological mother, Lisa; themselves, and the world they once knew. What they don’t expect is to be taken hostage by a schizophrenic family member that none of they have ever met. However, it’s not until they come upon Lisa’s Law: an edict of good will penned by the namesake to “make a long-lasting impression on at least one other life, for the better� that the central theme begins to surface. The Law of Lilies is a character driven, coming of age story about forgiveness, survival, and our redemption as a human race. It takes the reader through Ethan’s slapdash, and often times frightening view of today’s America. But more than simply a story about a character’s fruition; at approximately 60,000 words, it’s a challenge to the reader to make the world a more beautiful place, regardless of the ugliness of one’s past. Thrid round draft. Looking for any advice: creative, technical, what have you.

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