Lives of the Sinners is a massive, sprawling work about desire, self-destruction, and the broad space between our expectations and realities, aspiring to encompass as much of the human experience as I can pack between its pages. It is told in a series of unkempt vignettes, from the perspective of a character who is both trapped in his own perspective and biases, but able to omnisciently wander among his neighbors and friends – storyteller and judge.
LOTS is a big, ambitious, convoluted work, partaking in a variety of styles and perspectives, and as a result it is VERY unfinished, despite the amount of work I’ve already put into it. However, many of the vignettes and chapters include self-contained narratives, and so I mean to collect much of the work I’ve done here, with whatever organization I can find to impose upon the mess. At present, out of the seven “books” of the work, I’ve only written two into any finished the state – the second and the fifth “book” – and, of them, only the fifth is fully-typed. Moreover, even it may receive serious additions before I consider the work wholly completed.
Additionally, I tend to keep my work on the project fairly secret, due to how unfinished it is, and how high I hold it in my esteem. If A Small, Queer Silence is my most polished work so far, Lives of the Sinners promises to be my most substantial, and includes passages I consider among my best. As a result, I will not include long extracts of the book, but rather only some vignettes to give a taste of the larger work as I envision it.
Resemblance to Reality is Purely Coincidental 