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Spirit House by Patty Flauto, Watercolor/mixed media, © 2008

What Jamie Would Have Wanted
by Nicole Hunter

Publication details to be announced

In this provocative,
disorienting novel about interpersonal dynamics in mental illness, a Midwestern family deals with a series of sudden deaths, ghostly plagues, and an underage daughter’s affair with a major league baseball player. The story is told in snapshot-memories by shifting first-person narrators.

“Instead of walking a character from scene to scene in a story, there had to be some way to just—cut, cut, cut. To jump. From scene to scene. Without losing the reader. To show every aspect of a story, but only the kernel of each aspect. The core moment. Then another core moment. Then, another.
“There had to be some kind of chorus…A kind of glue or mortar that would hold together a mosaic of different moments and details…”
—from Chuck Palahniuk’s Afterword to Fight Club

Ambiguity by Patty Flauto, Watercolor/mixed media, © 2008

A parallel volume to What Jamie Would Have Wanted.

In the universe of What Jamie Would Have Wanted, Uncle Jamie steps off the curb into oncoming traffic — but in this branch of the universe, Uncle Jamie looks up — and a very different story unfolds.

Publication details to be announced

Invisible Sun by Patty Flauto, Watercolor/mixed media, © 2008

by Nicole Hunter

…a memoir in books that also provides a template for readers to use in reimagining their own lives through reading fiction.

Update: I decided this didn’t need to be a memoir,
and edited it down to
this one-page handout
and three YouTube videos.
Easy, helpful, free —
all you need.