Fiction

This is where you can read some of the fiction I’ve written over the last few years. Works in progress and older stuff will be made available as I finish them and/or clean them up for public consumption.

You may download any of these files free of charge, for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also distribute them freely to friends and relatives if you think they’d like to read them. In fact, I encourage you to do so. It only takes one reader to know an editor or agent looking for new talent, and if this kind of distribution gets me the exposure necessary to find a traditional publishing home for my work, then it was well worth the exercise.

So feel free to share amongst each other, but please do not publically repost this material anywhere, for any purpose, without prior permission. If in doubt, ask–you can email me at marko.kloos@gmail.com.

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That’s the fine print…now here’s the merchandise. I’ll update this page as I add new material, so check back on occasion.

A Bettered Life
(Literary Fiction/99,000 words)
Will Liebkind won the Nobel Prize for Literature ten years ago, and he’s had a case of writer’s block ever since. His brother Bob is a prolific writer of pulp and sex. They’ve been like cat and mouse since adolescence, but when events force Will to move in his brother’s orbit for a while, life changes in unexpected ways. A tale of family, redemption, and finding love.

Author’s Notes:
What kind of sibling rivalry could you get out of a pair of writer brothers–one who’s reached the zenith of the craft with a Nobel Prize, and one who writes nothing but pulp? What if the pulp-writing brother is actually the happier of the two?

I wrote this novel from December 2006 to January 2008. The main character of Will popped into my head when I was having a conversation with my wife one day, and I wrote most of the first chapter that night. I’m currently working on a sequel of sorts, a story told from the perspective of a different member of the family.

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