> Janus Incubus:
>
> The story of a gifted young man who wants to be a writer, kills
> someone in a fit of rage in a bookstore, and then ends up swapping
> identities in India with the man who saved him from suicide by
> drowning. He becomes successful as an author after the swap, but has
> lost his ethical roots, and becomes a real bastard. He
> finally returns
> to his old self, but at the moment he does, he is shot by
> the Montreal
> police while reaching into his bag to pull out ... a book to sign.
>
> Succubus Sea:
>
> The story of a man with an American father and Iranian mother who is
> blocked creatively as a painter. On his father's death, he
> returns to
> New York for the funeral, and is hired as an art
> instructor. He starts
> a relationship with the daughter of one of his childhood
> friends from
> Iran, a young dancer studying dance in New York. The relationship
> evolves tot he point where Cyrus Drake realizes he must
> return to the
> Iran of his childhood to uncover the true reason his mother
> was found
> dead on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
>
> Abadoun:
>
> The story of 13 people on or about the last day in the life of an
> Iranian-Kurdish village. The protagonist, returning from
> Baghdad on a
> mission to go to Teheran to free a political prisoner, must pass
> through Abadoun on the night before and morning before the
> noon-attack. As the man walks through the town on his business, he
> passes people, and each person whose life crosses his is examined in
> detail. The man must decide to warn the town, and thus save them all
> but doom himself as a spy, or to go on to rescue the political
> prisoner, and let them all be gassed.

And, what the hell -- my current novel in progress (yes folks, I have
decided that I will NOT abandon fiction writing):

Anders' Contrition:

The story of a young, award winning mathematics professor who gets
into a fight with his wife, and his wife storms out and gets killed in
a car accident. Anders had given up the seminary fifteen years earlier
to marry her. An undergraduate student of his also lost her boyfriend
some time back in similar circumstances, and the two form a platonic
support bond. She graduates from undergraduate studies at U of W, and
goes on to graduate studies at Cambridge. Anders, without knowing
where Farrah is going, accepts an offer for a guest lectureship at
Cambridge, in order to spend a year out of the USA to recover fully
from his wife's death. Turns out -- by sheer coincidence and political
maneuvering -- that Farrah Donahue is assigned to Anders Byrne as a
graduate student he must chair in her dissertation research for his
year there. Unfortunately, this decision comes one week after Anders
and Farrah have decided to give a relationship a go, and Anders is
caught in an ethical dilemma.

Clark Kilkenny, a history major who slept one night with Farrah and
wants more, discovers the unethical connection between Prof. Anders
Byrne and Farrah, and reports it to the university. Anders and Farrah
are dragged through the wringer by Cambridge, U of W, and the
Bruckemann award committee that gave Anders his award (a fictional
award given for the best dissertation of the last 7 years, given out
only every 7 years).

Will Anders and Farrah survive the wringer?

--
Quinn Tyler Jackson

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