The Reign of Chaos and Old Night 1981-2

Written during my first year of college. Altho I had tried several attempts to write a novel before this, this was the first that I finished. After a nuclear war, Rudolf Lear, a developmentally disabled man, finds himself immune to radiation and disease. He loves to stroke people and comfort them, but he is a carrier, and he carries diseases and spreads them and kills off what is left of the human race.

Active Dormancy 1982-3

Written for the most part during summer break between my first two years of college. A neighborhood of families who hate each other live with their violence seething just under the surface. It all comes out when they unintentionally find themselves all camping at Yellowstone Park at the same time. The volcano that is Yellowstone erupts, and they erupt into war between each other.

Adelbert Humphrey in the abyss, a mangled jazz riff, a jelly novel that tries to explode in your face 1983-4

Three parallel stories. The first features blind painter Adelbert Humphrey and his good friend Troglydite as they puzzle over a huge hole built in the middle of their neighborhood. The second story is a modern Orestia, that takes places in a suburban home, office warfare, and a McDonald's held hostage. The third story follows a breaktaking revolution in heaven. Jesus and Elvis are leading a violent uprising against the aging military dictator, God. After this I took a two year break from writing novels as I was writing and editing for my college newspaper.

Tourists in U.S. Three Step Novel 1986

Buzz Upjohn is the child of travelling missionaries. He is trapped in travel for the rest of his life, and observes the takeover of the United States by tourists from other countries, and the return singing tour of Jesus Christ, managed by Orson Welles.

Spies 1927 Novel that Flickers 1987

Three young people try to find a life inside the 1927 Fritz Lang film. They watch it again and again against the diary of their less exciting, but also emotional, days.

Accident Technique Novel Behind Your Back 1987

Burns Powers thinks he is a great dancer, and he worships Fred Astaire, but Burns Powers can't really dance in the accepted sense. He has a great love for Dallas Cain, who doesn't return his passion at all. He and his good friend Sal Mineo try their hardest to navigate their insecurities and hobbies, but it all gets blown away in a big storm.

Billion Million Thousand Hundred Novel Not Extinct 1988-9, 1995

A statement contra cars. Johnny Primate grows up on a death ship, a Winnebago driven by ghosts who cause accidents when they get close to living people in their cars. When the Winnebago crashes and Johnny wakes up in a hospital, he wonders if he can adjust to the world of the living and their even deadlier cars.

Symphony of a Thousand Novel From Zero 1991-4

The story of Faust retold thru television. Philo T. Faustus invented TV, but now he studies audience research in a major midwestern university. President Mephisto of Helmart Companies makes him into a pitchman for a chain of discount stores, while Josie Gretchen produces the television show of his life.

Already Over Show Novel for Beginners 1995-6, 2001

This story is set in a public access TV station and concerns Homer Runyon, an evangelist with a piece of metal in his brain that picks up radio waves. He speaks the radio that comes into his head for his public access show. I stopped writing this book half way thru it when I wondered why I was even writing these books that nobody would ever read. After a heart problem brought me closer to death than I'd ever been, I decided to make some changes in my life. Some attempts led to nothing, but I decided to pick up my writing again after having stopped it for four years, and I finished this book by adding some new characters and just putting down words on paper.

President's Pictures Novel in Nine Frames 2001

This was my response to September 11. President Parkingson works in a photo lab. When he processes a series of photos that seem to show a horrible axe murder he goes on the road, taking pictures of violent things before they happen to try to make them not happen.

Stud and Ernie in Summer of Remembrance 2002

I bring back the characters from a serial I wrote in my college newspaper in the summer of 1985. Stud and Ernie, college dormmates, are approaching 40. They get together to go on a roadtrip to re-discover their college friends and days, and to figure out what they have been doing with their lives since then. It ends on the moon.

The Epic of Wargoon Flishe 2002

Wargoon Flishe is a hero out of ancient days. He takes his best friend Gladweary to the House of the Dead, and then he eats Gladweary. He works his way up to the top of his father's company, Boom, Inc., and then he eats his father. He sells guns, ammunition, and dead people that you can shoot at, but he loses himself in a crazy movie venture, before destroying the stock market by eating up all the CEOs of all the other companies.

The Obvious Sonata 2002-3

The story of three people who wanted to be just one thing. Trez wants to be only image, and gets her wish in the Obvious Church. Jerry Tane wants to make himself a commodity, and so he does it in the self-same church. Cans wants to be pure violence, and he helps the war come between the Obvious Church of Jerry T. and the Omnivorous Church of Jerry L. This is my longest novel so far, about 90,000 words long.

Walker and Driver 2003

Walker is a racecar driver who kills a young boy on the raceway and secretly stops driving and walks instead to get around. His wife, Driver, drives everywhere and for everything, like everybody else does. Walker hides his secret from his wife and the whole world, except for a small band of fellow walkers, who he trains to avoid the cars that try to kill them.

Marcus Guidance, Star of Public Access Television 2003

Marcus Guidance is the King of the Bedsheet Screen in the your 1900, but his type of movies, movies that are more about the potential of movement than they are about movement itself, fall out of favor and he stops moving. He is taken for dead and buried but he digs himself out of his grave in 2003 to become a public access TV personality who is fighting the big TV forces of Smello Smiley and his strangely chilling utopia, Consumer Cookooland.

Courant, Starring Bargacrack 2003-2004

The story of a strange village and the couple who live there who have no names. Bargacrack and his wife Wendrovenous come there too, and in the village they have to deal with Linda, who takes over bodies, and holds birthday parties.

Peer W. Gynt 2004

This time I steal from Ibsen the story of a partying boy who grows into a businessman who is successful despite his failure self, and an old man who can't even see what all his policies did to the world around him. It is set in Minnesota during the upcoming ice age, where things are always very cold.

The Pain of General Balder Mundo 2004

You are General Balder Mundo. You live on a parking lot and you have no feelings. All you know how to do is to go to war against your evil enemy, Loki Worldgrabber. You have a team of feelers, Felix, Monica, Lydia and Truly, who help you feel the things that you cannot feel but need to.

Carfree 2005 2005

This is my diary of living without a car that year. My original goal was to try to not even ride in a car that year, but I blew that one as early as April. Not a novel.

Wargoon Flishe Watch 2006

This began as a diary of my work on my animated feature film based on Wargoon Flishe. As work slowed down on it, it turned into a place for my to put my project of writing a pome every day. Not a novel.

pomes for every occasion (but not this one) 2006

This is a short collection of some of the pomes I wrote in my 2006 Pome a Day Project. If you click, you will get it as a pdf file. Not a novel.

40 Winks of a Cyclops Guy's Gal 2007

This is a short novel written in forty short blog segments. Cyclops from The Odyssey tries to deal with his sexuality and his fascination with a TV starlet by undertaking several rounds of plastic surgery at Surgery War.

Missing F.U. 2007

The rough draft of this novel about the Horizontalists and the Verticalists and the brave work of Agent Only and Mintyfresh was written during National Novel Writing Month 2007. It is on-line for your reading pleasure. This is also (bells and whistles please) my 20th novel.

Bing Thisby 2008

The story of an animation pioneer, the creator of Sammy Slug, who writes his autobiography between the frames of his film and spends his last days conduction cloud cartoon aboard a bicycle cruiser.

I told you so 2009

It's the story of Tex and his issues with paper.

Demolition Dreaming 2013

Amid the bustle of a long forgotten part of the city, a sign painter collects the faces of his neighbors on the sides of buildings that will soon be crushed to dust.

Genevieve Possum, Gardener of the Future 2014

Genevieve Possum's home and garden are soon engulfed by the growing city of Minneapolis in the 1870's, but somhow she and her dancing bear companion, Grumney, carry on, growing the future as the city evolves around them.

Dopey Duck and the Floaters 2015

Dopey Duck is an animated character created by Solly Kronkenschmidt, a poor psychedelic animator on Nicollet Island in Minneapolis in the early 70's. It's an outlaw community on an island in the middle ofthe Mississippi River that starts floating free as it fills up with bicycle riding.

Ben and Dopey 2016

Ben Kranenshnitt is a street musian who plays a battery-operated keyboard and sings songs he writes on the Nicollet Mall of Minneapolis in the late 1980's. His father played a frog on children's TV and his mother was an underground animator who created Dopey Duck, who is not Ben's best friend.

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