What a Synopsis is - the Fifteeen Second Novel

The synopsis is to fiction what the article abstract is to newspaper writing. A synopsis is a thesis statement about a story. A synopsis is the abstract of a story. Synopses are generally similar to what a person reads about a story being in a movie guide or a television guide

Building Vegas

This novel is set in Las Vegas(and general vicinity,including the local towns of Henderson, Jean, Searchlight), and involves art and languages. Characters partially based on themes from Egyptian and Roman mythologies. The lead character is a casino owner who is trying to build another casino. Most of the minor characters are members of the nomenclature, who are very shallow people concerned with the acquisition of possessions, and little else, other than avoiding the deep waters that the sharks will swim in. The theme of mythology is implemented in one of the leads being employed as an archaeologist. The other lead character is an engineer for a construction firm that builds casinos, a career utilizing math and science.

Remember the Lothario

Set in Tampa/St. Pete (Tampa Bay area, West Coast Florida near the Gulf of Mexico), and Detroit (Cranbrook Institute of Art, Renaissance Center, Redford, Dearborn, Birmingham, Detroit Institute of Arts Royal Oak, Troy). This story involves women and women's studies, and also involves Greek mythology, Old Testament mythology, Business Studies, Home Economics (restaurant/crafts), Finance/Economics, Social Studies/histories. This novel integrates diaries into its craft. An interesting theory is proposed in this novel, that men are still working on obtaining equality with the gentler sex. The position of women in society modern, medieval, and ancient is compared in its context. The first part of the novel covers various art history and art trade issues. There is a minor art forgery uncovered.

A dry sort of work, suitable for the bed table on those nights when you are having trouble sleeping, up until about half-way through the novel, when the killings start happening. A duplicate work of art to one of the Old Masters works is found in the house of each victim shortly prior to, or immediately after the murder.

Twin Theft: To Steal a Billion Dollars

Themes: clumsiness, how it can change your life forever. The tiniest object can be something very important. Chaos, everything the character does either backfires or is random in nature. Social studies, Japanese mythology, Greek mythology, Cretan mythology, Roman mythology. Throw in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, mathematics of casino gambling odds, the airport chapels in Las Vegas and Houston. A drop of water effects the pool of water in each of the whirlpools, spas, or ponds in each of these situations. Small destructions of objects work into a larger picture.

Little betrayals lead to something larger. Eventually, a major building is destroyed due to various inadequacies and self-serving cutting corners of various aspects of an extremely important project serving the prime directive. Someone saves dozens of lives by rolling down the stairs of the World Trade Center, causing an avalanche of humans rolling down the stairs.

Let's Get Bored

An evenly -paced novel of slow-paced laser-era suspense and terror. A lot of the minor characters are killed or terrorized. The main character is "killed" at the beginning of the novel. A central element of the story is time travel. Another element to this boring tale is spinal-tap. There are lots and lots of half-baked humans, and tons of things that nobody recognizes. The original short story is probably floating around out there. After drastic plastic surgery subsequent to a failed marriage that ended with the groom marrying about six to eight replicates, the narrator quits and gets another face, free with beating. Nobody thinks that she is still alive until the final few chapters of the story, except for the narrator herself, who quit being the main character in the first chapter.

Hijacking 101

A masculine novel involving egos, competitiveness, rivalry. This involves the management of several airlines and the airport itself, and is set in Las Vegas and Houston. Airport jobs involved: Air Traffic Controller, Baggage Handlers, Security Personnel, Customer Service Representatives, Quality Control and Mystery Shoppers, Flight Attendants, Pilots, Flight Service Station, Human Resources Personnel.

Ideas, visualization, studies of right-hemisphere and left-hemisphere oriented people. At least one person is really bored with his or her job, an air traffic controller who uncovers a hijacking plot. This person takes off, and is almost successful at stopping 101 hijackers. Unfortunately, 3 of the hijackers are successful.

Hurricane

The hero is again mysteriously fatigued, and finds anything other than sleep enormously fatiguing. He spends several weeks in a comatose trance before regaining his full capacities. He is cared for by a mysterious set of twins - is he in love, or is he sick? It's surprising how quiet Las Vegas can be, or how difficult to diagnose this chronic fatigue syndrome is.

When he regains his capacities, it's back to traveling around the Gulf of Mexico, while investigating corruption in business. He starts off in Houston, and travels to New Orleans, the murder capital of America. From there, it's a high-speed chase through Biloxi and Mobile to Tallahassee, where there is a gun battle. Down the Gulf Coast to the keys - will he intercept the other team of corruption before the arrive in Miami? Will he get over as the enemy agent? What will happen when he gets to the crime lord's palace?

He is captured, and narrowly escapes death, thanks to a major hurricane, which causes everyone at the crime lord's palace to evacuate.

Authorship

I tried deleting this stuff a few times, and being that I actually wrote this stuff, the computer will not let me. Too bad, its garbage, it'll sell. I don't believe that I wrote these, they are not very good, I wrote hundreds of little novel things like this, and thought that they were good enough to write a short story from, with maybe a few vignettes and a general plot out line or two. Then, I'd do non-fictional background research, like big deal, who cares, most of the authors wanted to make up their own cities. So, then, I made up a few virtual landscapes with a software program called Sim City. Then, I got tattered, while I was sleeping in a motel room.