excerpts from unwritten novels sean brijbasi "She fell from the sky and landed on her fingertips. Her skirt fell about her face and her bare legs spread open to point towards the Heavens." -Santori Garzella, Acrobasilicus "I can tell you that the lying started early. Perhaps as early as three-years old because I remember telling an aunt that my brother stole money from my piggy bank, although I had no conception of money, although I had no piggy bank. She gave me five dollars and told me not to tell anyone. And from one lie sprouted another lie. And from another lie sprouted other lies until by the age of eight I was as good a liar as anyone I had ever come across at such a tender age. Sure, I had challengers, like Bobby Silva who did tell one beauty, tears and all, about his sister dying because she ate raw carrots..." --Rodney Martin, The Liar "He camped his testicles in ivaginary lung drops. Who wants a kiss, he thought? He felt drunk. Supine and sublime. Rich in the ways of dillydally men without the whip marks." -- Marcel Duchovny, The DillyDally Men "In Stockholm, for example, one can buy a bag of Spanish clementines, take them home, and put them in a glass bowl on the living room table. In a day, possibly two, they will be gone." -- Anders Walloo, A Death in Stockholm, a Sven Dahlqvist Mystery "Death, disease, religion, racism, sexism, mendacity, hypocrisy, advantage, exploitation, suffering, abuse, marriage, depravity, Barbie dolls, mediocrity, boredom, corn, hate. These are the cruel truths of life in rural America." --Jonathen Brennan, A History of the Outskirts (of town). "The woman looked the same in light as she did in darkness. An ambiguous figure. A relic from an old language. Untranslatable. What did Sully want to do? Wrap his hands around her neck? Crystallize his thoughts into one act of rage? Or embrace her?" --Fiona Noor, Sully "Gina closed the door behind her and rushed to the closet. She pulled out her suitcase and threw it open onto the bed, searching for the small bag that she kept her nail file in. It had to be there, she thought. It just had to be." --Desmond Mott, Angles Parallel to the Vicar "There was no turning back for them now. It was either advance and die in a firefight or retreat and be hanged for treason. First Sergeant Olkewicz, known as Olkie, turned to the men now under his command and threw up." --Felix Portnoy, Three Minutes in D' Nang "Sandy opened Gregory's fly and reached her hand in. She had been waiting for this 'meeting' in his office since she started working at Hamson & Hamson. The thought of a sexual encounter with Sandy had never really occurred to Gregory until he got a chance to see Sandy drunk at the company Christmas party, but from that time on, he started paying more attention to her. He pushed away from his desk to give her room. She bent over him and got down on her knees while Gregory turned the picture of his wife and kids face down onto the desk." --Erikka Kay, The Trials of Sandy McCool "There is no literary history or tradition to give credibility or relevance to a collection of excerpts taken from unwritten novels, therefore I find that an introduction to this new literary form is in order. Twenty minutes ago, sitting at my desk in an undisclosed location near Washington D.C…" --Sean Brijbasi, Excerpts From Unwritten Novels Visit Sean Brijbasi's website: www.seanbrijbasi.com