A Tale of 23 Things
by juliett jade
A novel published online with one of 23 chapters sent via e-mail just about every new and full moon from January 23, 2008.
A Tale of 23 Things is a metaphysical, open relationship love story set in San Francisco starring a web of artists, street performers and itinerants. Each chapter unfolds around the action of discovering, creating or gifting an object, revealing the messages and stories contained within each thing while passionate entanglements and fringe philosophies unfurl.
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Welcome to A Tale of 23 Things. I pounded out the first draft of this novel in a feverish haze in November 2006 during my first Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) adventure. Since this intensely-determined, 50,000+ word birthing process, the story and its characters have evolved and grown, organized puppet shows in parking garages and sculpted lawn chairs from old license plates, and now that they have matured to the point of asserting volition, they insist on entering the public eye.
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The subscription is for the entire novel sent in chapters over the course of 2008, one chapter sent every new and full moon from January 23, 2008. If the subscription is made after the installments have begun, all previous chapters will be sent in the first e-mail.
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