Adam Wasserman's Fiction Page





The Novels



Pages

Completed

Thank You For Your Cooperation

Welcome to the Bunker, an orderly underground utopia where everyone’s needs have been satisfied! We all have a job and all the slop we can manage to get down. Officially, nothing exciting ever happens in the Bunker, and that's a Good Thing. After all, excitement can only be the result of terrorist activity, and that's (of course) a Bad Thing. Fortunately, Control is in charge and – as long as we're loyal! – we are also safe. Inspired by the roleplaying game, Paranoia, it’s always hard to tell what ridiculous situation we’ll find ourselves in next or – more importantly – how we can get out with all the body parts in their proper place.

215

November 2011

Gyges the Terrible

It is the future. The world is a boring, oppressive, and mundane place. Six major empires exist, one of which is the United States and its Northern European and Central American provinces, now ruled as a “Freemocracy”. The Justices of the Supreme Court are powerful adepts at the black arts, and the President, Samuel Judas Epstein, opposes them. It is into this bitter feud that Marcellus Gyges and his friends inadvertently step when he finds a magical ring with the power of command. He and his friends go to Washington with the intention of seizing power. After all, when you can do what you want with impunity, what's to stop you? As it turns out, there's plenty, including the most difficult thing in the world to overcome: yourself!

399

January 2010

The Grey Life

David Berkowitz is just another college student, or so he seems. His freshman year at the Johns Hopkins University will be one he never forgets, even if he ought to. He falls in love. A lot of people do that. He grapples with insanity. Not so many people do that. Was it all the LSD? The stuff they smoked? The cocaine? At a certain point it doesn't really matter.

243

Original version October 1993, Revised May 1998


The Plays



Pages

Completed

Bringing Down the House

The mayor against a bunch of squatters. Comedy.

100

November 2005

The Hearing

A miserable bastard wants to sue everyone. Comedy.

10

July 2005



The Stories



Pages

Completed

The Politics of Consumption, Part II

From the fall of communism to Orwell's 1984 state.

36

April 2002

The Politics of Consumption, Part I

From the advent of capitalism to the fall of communism.

21

November 2001

Collision Course

The world of the distant future, when corporations have taken over the earth.

14

May 2001

Stuck

A fat man in Amsterdam gets stuck in his neighbor's window.

31

December 2000

Silence in Heaven

A myth about the death of the gods. Fantasy.

18

June 1997

Gregory the Terrible

A dark story about modern family life and Christianity.

22

September 1996

The Girl the Boy and His Demon

The twisted workings of a twisted mind.

6

November 1995

Ms. Wellington's Oak Tree

A unlikely little story about likely love.

5

October 1995

Journey

The adventures of a rebellious, pagan youth in the time of the Renaissance.

30

November 1994

A Stoned Trip to America

Just another dude coming back from a trip to Amsterdam.

14

December 1993



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