Perhaps it's best described to call this article a general outline of plots. There is a trilogy of work I'm trying to complete, and it runs the gamut of several concepts.

It's a melting pot of satire, dark comedy, religion mockery, fantastical comic book character-like powers, and one mother load of overall story line.

It actually makes no sense to divuldge all of it's secrets--you may never want to read it! ;)

As a youngin' (or..rather, younger youngin') I was obsessed with werewolves, vampires, and all sorts of fantastical it-could-happen-in-some-alternate-universe things.

Through 1998-2002 or so I had begun to work on Inverse//Reverse exclusively, but found that I couldn't get it to go anywhere. As often as it did, I scrapped everything and figured I may never bother to begin it again.

But by about 2006 I was ready to dip my feet into it for one last swim, but in doing this last ditch approach I decided to make it pleasing to write.

And so, it began.

Inverse//Reverse begins in the middle of an ethereal combat session, starring the main character of Josh. His opponent apparently had made deals to win, and when his opponent loses Josh is marked for a turn.

The next day his world turns upside down as he is attacked by an "assisanation" team, or perhaps--maybe--we'll call it "creators of the undead team." (because it sounds more fancy!)

The character, Josh, is then faced with his death and rebirth as a blood sucking creature---but it's only the beginning.

The overall motif of this novel revolves around teenagedom, misanthropy, social commentary, and culture drops. (For example, an allusion to a Skittles commercial. Why? Why not?.)

The plot has more twists than a pretzel factory, and it has yet to fully be written down in any form.

Besides in my head...

Josh is a seventeen year old occult ninja master (in his words, I assure you.) who just wanted to know what was beyond the flesh. When he angered the wrong people--he was bound to his flesh, in vampiric form.

His girlfriend, Stacy, is actually older than him--though outwardly a few years younger, for eternity. Her affinity for him is most likely a by-product of Josh's good deeds and heroics, seen in the first part of the book. They are yin and yang, atypically male and atypically female.

The next couple is Shauna-David, and if you've ever read Lord of the Flies it won't take you long to figure out where that is going.

And then there's Jessica and Jason, the unofficial King and Queen of the vampire coven. Their role is third party reasoning, for the most part.

And last, but not least, we must not forget Wolfie. His back story is little known, other than he is a large werewolf with the ability to shape shift, perform excersism, and cast spells. His log cabin in the woods, away enough from Fall Lake's suburbia is enough cover for him and his teenage vampires.

Contrary to popular disbelief, Lycans and Vampires do get along. Werewolves just don't get why the vampires drain the blood and leave plenty of meat--such trivial issues, no?

The Greatest Con is another beast in of it's self. Taking on the role of more social commentary, it struggles to re-write reality and past religion. The first few chapters revolve around a Chris, who is Fall Lake High school's most picked on kid.

The real star of the show, however, is Tim Seer (get it? I know, it's lame.) who is all kinds of messed up due to his extraordinary powers of perception, ability to modify objects through his ethereal skin, ability to plane walk, and kick out demons. He is fearless, but hopelessly sarcastic. He feels his life changing all around him as he approaches his 30-something years.

His world begins to become undone as he is hired by Divinity, Inc. to clean out ghost infestations and track down Satan's ever evolving and revolving kast of killers, known affectionately as "It's." As in.. "What was it?!" It was your last word, because there's no witnesses.

Tim is paired up with a Divine Detective named Mitchell, who looks like a throw back to the 1930s gumshoe. Only..you know, he's not quite alive anymore.

And just as Mitchell shows up within Inverse//Reverse, the vampire kids get involved with The Greastest Con. What exactly is the con? Well, the answer is layered, because by now several people controlling the events are screwing each other over.

Timothy Seer is your unhappy-go-lucky psychic medium, slightly psycho from tons of ghost visitations and demon attacks. Seriously, why won't the dead die?

His wit and weird charm more than makes up for his substance abuse issues. At least he's not shouting "Get out of my teeth!"

Mitchell is all work and no play, just some detective who would like to crack the case. Why is Satan unleashing the threat of death by helping various knocked around people unleash their rage? The answer will surprise you.

Lou, the end-all-be-all of Divinity, Inc. chief executive officers muses himself with the debauchery becoming ever more pervasive as the book progresses. He's bored, his minion "in charge" of Hell is bored, and at least something is finally happening.

Satan has his plans, and while it seems very convuluted--it may just turn out capturing souls is much cheaper than third world labor.

By the ending of The Greatest Con something has begun to become very upset about the events that have unfolded within both previous story lines. With battle lines drawn many characters seen through out the work will undoubtedly join forces and ponder what exactly has been occurring--what exactly this has all done to the strings of resonating reality, of the very fabrics of space-time.

The choices they are faced with are neither good nor bad--they just are what they are, and it just may well turn into a choose-your-own-adventure book.

culture drops are easily seen, iconic characters and concepts known to those who love fantasy, vampires, werewolves, and anything else you'd care to look up in the world of ameroculta. The intention of these books is to make sure you miss something--and make you wonder what it is you missed, as you go back and read.

Hidden within the many lines of words, within the strings of events, it's going to be derned near impossible to not want to Google a few things. The writing styles change often, the plots generally have little seeming significance.

And they won't--unless you soak in all three.

Welp, back to writing...

You can visit The Greastest Con by clicking here. So far several chapters have been written and it won't exactly matter in what sequence you read any of the novels.