Narrative: Fiction/Autobiographical Fiction/Fiction

In draft manuscript form, I have a number of items best described as novellae. They are well beyond standard short-story, but are well below what would be full novel length.

They include “Hear My Train A-Coming” (17 pages, single-spaced), which is a more conventionally autobiographical reconstruction, about my interactions with a psychotic neighbor from the late 90’s to the beginning of the new century. “Veritas” (15 pages, single-spaced), is a multiply embedded story which includes both autobiographical and fictionally autobiographical components (hence the title, which also refers to a specific concrete image), embedded in multiple accounts that also involve reflections on such stories and their role in memory, identity, and moral development. “Mirago” (31 pages, single-spaced) is a fictionalized account of a very real but very troubling period in my life, and the ambivalences of its healing, though identities and specifics have been changed to protect the innocent (as well as the guilty). The fourth is “The Gates” (29 pages, single-spaced) which, while certainly containing autobiographical elements, consists of entirely composite or imagined characters in a retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.