Is it ever too late for love? Perhaps, at the end, we're
provided a gift, a final glimpse of what we were always
meant to have. When the temperature falls, and the
snow drifts higher than stranded cars, perhaps warmth
is only as far away as our fingertips can reach...
How close are identical twins? How far do boyhood
dreams travel? And how deep is a sharing love that never
dies? When one boy completes another boy's wish, who
is to say which boy is which, or if the road ever ends out
along the interstate where the fireflies dance...
Sometimes the only way a wounded soul can heal is by
linking up with a kindred spirit with a heavier load. A man
with a broken heart and lost dreams might be able to save
a crushed little girl, with the help of Robin Hood and his
merry men, and a little pony named Wildfire...
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" meets "Firestarter" meets
"Kramer vs. Kramer." How far will an unfairly imprisoned
father go to protect his only son from a child prodigy
monster, a boy who has already killed several children in
a high-tech virtual/hyper-reality Creativity Game?
In a world where creativity has lost its flavor, is it possible
for true artists to even survive, let alone interact with others
or communicate, heart to heart? A beautiful young dancer
could be the proverbial "last chance" for a tortured writer,
but does she dare speak to her lonely customer?
Be careful what you wish for. A young journalist's chance
to meet his idol, a mysterious writer vanished from the
world's eye, could prove to be a fatal dream come true. He
must either witness the death of idyllic dream, or lose his
own way in the war zone between insanity and genius.
"The man who does not read books
has no advantage over the man
that can not read them."
- Mark Twain
"If you stuff yourself full of poems,
essays, plays, stories, novels,
films, comic strips, magazines,
music, you automatically explode
every morning like old faithful. I
have never had a dry spell in my
life, mainly because I feed myself
well, to the point of bursting. I
wake early and hear my morning
voices leaping around in my head
like jumping beans. I get out of
bed to trap them before they
escape."
- Ray Bradbury
"To keep
a lamp
burning we
have to keep
putting oil in it."
- Mother Teresa
"Genius is 1% inspiration
and 99% perspiration."
- Thomas A. Edison
"All generalizations are
dangerous, even this one."
- Alexandre Dumas
"Control your emotion
or it will control you."
-Samurai Maxim
"Kites rise highest against
the wind -- not with it."
- Winston Churchill
He now knows why he has never fit in, why he has always
been different. Now he knows why he has always felt
alone and why love has seemingly passed him by. Can he
forgive the woman who kept him in the dark? Or the man
who deserted him? An old man on wheels has the answers.
Bel is the hot girl, the one all the boys fantasize about, but
why does she spend time with Dave? He's a nerd, and he
adores her, would do anything for her, believes everything
she says and would offer up his very life if she wanted it.
The trouble is, maybe she does want it.
Matson is not the typical psychotic sociopath. He is some-
thing more. Something extra. When Matson chose Angelica,
Tommy called his best friend Harry, who knows best how to
deal with stalkers. If Tommy knew the truth he never would
have called. Harry doesn't stand a chance.
Yo! I worked on this site last on: February 13, 2008
"The man who has no
imagination has no wings."
- Muhammad Ali
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that
never were. But without it we go nowhere."
- Carl Sagan
All Fiction ©Copyright 2007
by Douglas Christian Larsen
"The writer who possesses
the creative gift owns some-
thing of which he is not always
master -- something that at
time strangely wills and
works for itself."
- Charlotte Bronte
...for the first time, read a preview of the new novel...
...for the first time, read a preview of the new novel...
Deceiving the Elect. by Douglas Christian Larsen, ©Copyright 2001, all rights reserved.
While the world falls apart about them, a small fellowship of men and women
fight and claw to find some truth to set them free of violence, terror and madness.
Is there truth? Are men and women mere animals? Will only the very strongest survive? Stacey, the ground-
down, worn-out ex-boxer hungry for suicide; Jack, a sensitive teenager forced to choose between witchcraft and
the religion of his great grandfather; Bronte, the ethereal musician caught between the twisted spiritualism of
her mother and the elusive vision of a soul mate; Joshua, a gentle giant searching for the perfect church, terrified
of using his monstrous strength against people; the charismatic preacher Bobby Cilantor who draws thousands
to his "old-time gospel shows" where miracles and emotionalism compete side by side; Michael, a fierce
introvert ready to stand up to the entire world to protect those he loves despite his twisted, dwarfed body. The
gray man stalks the world and "Jehovah's Army" hones its skills with bayonet, commando knife and automatic
weapons. The world hovers on the brink of "Secret Rapture," but is everything as it appears to be? Impossible
as it seems, even the elect can be deceived. As many invest in "left behind" videos and insurance only a few
special people seem to detect the crumbling concrete beneath all the glittering gold paint -- is the world on the
edge of another, more desperate holocaust, a more savage and complete inquisition, or is it one closed door
away from a bright and new utopian world where a king of kings will rule a new world order with an iron rod?
Forces are marshalling, powers gather on high places, and Stacey is having dreams of heaven, or a place very
much like heaven, but the man with the crown and the false smile is definitely nobodys' messiah.
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why."
- Albert Einstein
"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams -- daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing -- are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization."
- L. Frank Baum
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
- Voltaire
"Whether you think you can, or think
you can't, you're probably right."
-Henry Ford
Douglas Christian Larsen, Writer / Artist
The Online Fiction of Douglas Christian Larsen, DCLWolf, Author, Starving Artist, Novelist, Writer and Papa Wolf.
Fiction that goes beyond literary imaginings, melding reality with romance, horror and religion, psychology with fantasy, a revolution of the mind. You won't just read, prepare to think. Fiction of the Wolf.
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality
will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth
(without caring twopence how often it has been told before)
you will, nine times out of ten, become original
without ever having noticed it."
- C.S. Lewis