This is my first attempted novel, a historical fiction comedy. We Service What We Sell is the story of five former urban-suburban friends, on the verge on turning thirty, brought back together by the accidental popularity of their short, fire-centric, online video. In a literal rendition of the old adage, their overnight fame all but evaporates by the next morning leaving the friends to explore their hyper-nonsense worlds and instant-meal relationships. Complete with wizards, time-traveling and presidential authority.
Written over about seven months in 2010. Not quite fine-tuned, not quite published. A chapter a day, totaling about 54,800 words. You can link to it this blog if you want, but don't steal. Hope you enjoy.
Here is the chapter list.
Chapter One: Going Home
Chapter Two: Another Gas Station
Chapter Three: Remember Emmit?
Chapter Four: Late Nights, Popcorn Fights
Chapter Five: He Needs Pants and a Snack
Chapter Six: Three Fingers above the Horizon
Chapter Seven: Online and On Fire
Chapter Eight: Dinner Table Politics
Chapter Nine: Voices from the Borderlands
Chapter Ten: Broken Vacuum Cleaners
Chapter Eleven: The Morning After
Chapter Twelve: The Wizard and Snow
Chapter Thirteen: I Love You, Bogart
Chapter Fourteen: Now That’s Interesting!
Chapter Fifteen: The Thieves are History
Chapter Sixteen: Heaven and New Jersey
Chapter Seventeen: Two Presidents
Chapter Eighteen: Is the Universe Destroyed?
Chapter Nineteen: Antebellum
Chapter Twenty: He’s Just Not Wanted
Chapter Twenty-One: President Tatarko
Chapter Twenty-Two: Soup Kitchens Still Exist
Chapter Twenty-Three: Vindication
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Twenties Will Roar Again
Chapter Twenty-Five: He Ran Away
Chapter Twenty-Six: Dying a Hundred Years Later
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Yelling at the TV
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Staying Home
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Encore
Chapter Thirty: Breaking into the Business
Chapter Thirty-One: Stage Fighting
Chapter Thirty-Two: Showdown at Jackson Park
Chapter Thirty-Three: Moving Forward with History
Chapter Thirty-Four: Workingman’s Blues
Chapter Thirty-Five: Look Out, Dog!
Chapter Thirty-Six: Somebody is Missing
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Longest Prologue Ever
