ALL ANYTHING ANYONE live on Substack

My long-worked on Serial Novel All Anything Anyone is live on Substack!

ALL ANYTHING ANYONE

All Anything Anyone is the story of five best friends, Dungeons and Dragons players, shortly after high school and living on their own for the first time, falling into the world of parties and drugs.

I first finished this novel in 2019 and have struggled for many years where to place it. In its 2nd draft it was 1275 pages and over 350,000 words. After years of editing and cutting away I got it down to 1039 pages and 285,000 words, which is still much, much longer than agents or presses were willing to take a risk on. Friends and a few people who reviewed the book said that novel seemed to call out to be released serially, the way alot of the 19th century Dickens/Collins/Spofford’s books were released. So finally that’s what I decided to do. The Prologue is free to read on the Substack, and you can sign up for subsequent chapters. I will be releasing around 8-12 pages per week, and at that rate the books should be finished in about two years. I hope you’ll check it out!

Fiction – Diaries in Pool Party Mag

Sam was older than me and one of her nipples was pierced and I did whatever she said. I was barely a person, more of an ill-fit together explosion of hair, limbs and teeth spilling all over, my body a gangly nest of messiness. We had met through friends of friends, she found me clinging…

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Fiction — Jumping Out Of Car Practice in Unstamatic Journal

Air whooshed into the car when Brian opened the passenger side door of my ’96 Ford Taurus and stuck his Doc Marten boot out above the moving pavement. Brian’s Doc Martens were hand-me-downs, scuffed and cracked and almost grey with age, the yellow laces laced all the way up and wrapped several times before being tied around Brian’s skinny leg just above the ankle, his cuffed jeans lifting as he stretched one leg out of the door.

 

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Fiction — Security in COUNTERCLOCK Journal

Hamish lived on the opposite side of the country from his family, but he had never been on an airplane, he had moved by train. He was a romantic, but this time, there was urgency; his grandfather had died. So Hamish called the airplane company to purchase a ticket which he was told would be at the counter when he went. The airport was so much bigger than Hamish knew.

 

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