It began with an internet meme as its seed: Ninjas vs. Pirates. A blood feud of stock characters. It took root in the debate about genre vs. literary fiction. Those who know Nelson know what he thinks about that dichotomy.
Can a story populated entirely by genre characters have a literary conscience? Challenge accepted.
All The Seas And Rivers is a serialized tale of genre fiction at war, its title a nod to Chinese jianghu adventure, its narrator an homage to American hardboiled mysteries, its content a commentary on literature itself. Grounded in trope, aspirations in the clouds. Let the storytelling storm begin…
CHAPTERS
THE DETECTIVE – MARSHALL FINISTER
ONE – “My name could be Marshall Finister, for all you know…”
TWO – “When I stepped outside, my smoke was lit…”
THREE – “The Huntsman’s front desk was long…”
FOUR – “I had been wrong about people being on the balconies…”
FIVE – “Once the wind figured out it couldn’t knock the doors down…”
THE MONK – JIMMY FU
ONE – “A train derailment is always a bad thing…”
TWO – “Both passenger cars were empty…”
THREE – “Turning his head, he looked up and down the tracks…”
FOUR
FIVE
THE GUNFIGHTER – PATRICK CLARK
ONE – “Haul Your Pretty Arses”
TWO – “A Fistful of Dullards”
THREE – “The Man With New Name”
FOUR – “The Owe-Box Incident”
FIVE – “The Mortificant Seven”
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