A Collection of First Chapters

First Chapter: The Lottery Ticket

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:03:26 -0700

Bad things can happen to good people, OK? I'm cool with that, although I'm not cool with what happened to Mom and Dad. I never figured anybody would do anything to get somebody else's lottery tic

First Chapter: I Am Marjan

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:34:34 -0800

PROLOGUE I am Marjan, son of the one-eyed lion from Kabul. My story begins in Köln, Germany, where I was born in the local zoo a year and a half before my father’s death. He was, according to

First Chapter: Grok

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:11:10 -0800

By Tom Maremaa She was sitting by the edge of the pool in the sweltering heat of LA, her feet dan- gling happily in the water. It was noon: any minute now the band was due to show up. She needed a

First Chapter: Imagined

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:34:44 -0800

By Tom Maremaa Prologue Things could not have got much worse that year. My marriage had broken up and I’d lost custody of my son in a legal fight that had left me drained of ener- gy and pocketbook