Lonely Hearts Chapel

Fiction

LONELYHEARTS 2016:

“Act One of the tragicomic, super-real

LONELYHEARTS FOREVER! Trilogy”

Modern-day Brooklyn sets the scene, for anonymous blogger and aspiring political leader Miss Lonelyhearts to finally “go public,” during a performance-turned-marriage proposal that explodes the persona’s Twitter fame. But the explosion isn’t as planned as people think, and it proves devastating to Miss Lonelyhearts’ mission of implementing his “all-consuming miracle Love.”

Tentative cover

Excerpts:

1. “fish became man”
2. “the sex that gestates Life”
3. “sexual frustrations of other men”
4. “something he thought was happiness”
5. “the mess that’s America”
6. “every wet stranger”
7. “first to dream of immortality”
8. “a gun on every table”
9. “entire sweating restless world”
10. “only thing keeping them alive”
11. “after my hands started bleeding”

LONELYHEARTS NOW?

The sequel finds Miss Lonelyhearts celebrating Labor Day weekend 2016 at a new friend’s summer-home in the Hamptons, recuperating after the tragic conclusion of his performance-turned-marriage proposal. Because of Miss Lonelyhearts’ intervening, the weekend unfolds as an absurd melodrama, revolving around: rape-culture; mental healthcare stigma; and the disintegration of an American family that’s so intense it quite literally burns the house down.

LONELYHEARTS FOREVER!

Miss Lonelyhearts falls victim to both Christian and Islamic extremism in the series’ finale, which finds humanity on the brink of a global nuclear holy-war. The many threats to Miss Lonelyhearts’ life leave the international legacy of his Lonely Hearts Chapel in jeopardy. Meanwhile, America is in the process of evolving beyond a republic and becoming the truest, most powerful democracy in the world; under the guidance of President Hillary Rodham, society quickens its progress–even as the resulting friction reaches lethal peaks.

Love always,

Mister L.