Less Than Innocent
A Lockdown Story
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2022
150 pages
978-1-990187-66-7 (ISBN)
Description
On a day in September, 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nova Scotia, a young man named Rob gets ready for a run along a rail trail. His shoelace snaps, and with that all his plans change. Less Than Innocent is an adventure on several levels. Who are all these people interested in getting hold of Rob, and how will he evade them? What is going on with the second post-office box? What is brewing among some students and a faculty advisor at Acadia University? At a higher lever, the book is an adventure in writing. Twenty authors each wrote a chapter and handed the book on to the next writer in line. Using the 'yes, and' principle of improvisation, each writer had to take what was in the existing chapters and create the next steps in the evolving story. There was no story outline: the writing itself determined where the story would go.
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Content
That morning
And on it goes
Iceboats
A bad day in Manhattan
A view with a room
Quick as a summer storm
We were just students
He could feel the water rising
Revelations
Ratsberry pie
A ten-jellybean problem
Invisible Man
What would Miss Fisher do?
The dome shatters
Gin and vodka
Unexpected chemistry
Rats are survivors
And all went dark
Unless some other crazy happens
A shut mouth catches no flies
Hats aplenty
More than guilty
One branch on the tree
The making of the book
The authors
