E G Fabricant: 18 books

What you’re buying into here are a series of 13 essays I posted as 35 blog entries to my website between the end of 2005 and just before the November 2010 election. Most of the first 32 were published weekly throughout 2006 and are organized around 13 distinct themes; the last three were random,...

From "Matters Familiar." A recently-divorced father sharing custody of his young son learns about parenting in an unlikely place--Death Row. Adult language.

From "Matters Familiar." Two brothers try to make sense of their lives after their domineering mother's death. Adult language.

From "Matters Familiar." Two boys, one mother; two lives, separated from birth.

From "Matters Familiar." A scandal-plagued politician contemplates suicide, but checks in with his cousin first to sort things out. Adult language.

From "Matters Familiar." Adrift in his own life and desperate for a belief system, a young man finds direction and purpose from a surprising source.

Matters Familiar is an anthology of short stories, offering 12 tales from inside complex contemporary relationships featuring parents; kids; convicts; hustlers; lawyers; politicians; and other undesirables: · A small girl, suffocating in the growing culture of fear around her, struggles to...

From "Matters Familiar." An amnesiac accident victim recovers more than his health among strangers in a small Southern town. Adult situations, language.

"Me--Molly" is my entry in NPR’s Round Ten of their occasional feature, “Three Minute Fiction.” In this case, each story had to be written as a voice-mail message.” Had to be dialogue, right? I thought, "This is my chance." They did select a story with a similar theme,...

After cutting school, two bored teenagers cook up some Spam-inspired mischief between the housekeeper and Grandpa. The result? Not what they bargained for. Adult situation.

From "Matters Familiar." A retired cowgirl and her best friend resort to drugs, kidnapping, and interstate flight to escape the nursing home and reclaim their lives.

From "Matters Familiar." A top-dollar attorney complains about the bill and unwittingly becomes his plumber’s Zen pupil. Adult language.

From "Matters Familiar." A girls' softball team rebels and instructs parents and coaches in the value of competition.

It's six weeks until the scheduled launch of the first manned Mars fly-by, when Diana Erden--one-half of the married "Phobonaut" crew--loses consciousness. The choice facing the TransMars Collective, a private venture on the threshold of history? Proceed as planned, or fail. Under the circumstances,...