Glyphics

by J. Richard Singleton

"My best friend was murdered by a government conspiracy to suppress public knowledge of America's cooperation with extraterrestrials and experimentation with alien technology—but to answer your question, I'm looking forward to the prom," high school senior and creepy loner Truman tells the school psychologist.

He was a normal high school senior growing up in the quaint town of Smith, New Mexico, population 31,313, floating through a lazy summer when Truman met and befriended Ethan Howe, an eccentric out-of-towner who thought that the moon landing had been faked on a soundstage in Burbank and that there was a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory, a meta-theory that would encompass everything from vaccines to 9/11 to Roswell—a theory that would explain everything.

Ethan's death from a drug overdose is a settled matter for everyone but Truman, who suspects foul play. His friend wasn’t suicidal, he insists, and some of his journals are missing.

As the Eisenhower High’s Homecoming Game approaches, Truman gets involved in a series of escalating dangerous situations and increasingly bizarre characters (including a 140-year-old Nazi scientist war criminal and some very weird, very creepy men in black), as he fights to avert a team of suspicious and extremely popular "exchange students" from possibly taking over the world and enslaving humanity.

With the assistance of the beautiful but snarky Goth Avril DeWinter, Truman hopes to unravel the Grand Unified Conspiracy, expose the government's work with the extraterrestrial technology, avenge his friend's death and find redemption...

Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2011

About the author

Novelist, essayist, screenwriter, philosopher, riverboat gambler, typer of biographies, J. Richard Singleton has established himself as one of the great thinkers of his time. (Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.) He was a dual major in college, earning degrees in both political science and English, where he also wrote for his college newspaper. In high school, he wrote a little screenplay, "Thugs," which was recently declared a finalist in both the WriteMovies.com screenwriting contest and the American Accolades screenwriting contest. When he isn't writing screenplays, novels and essays, he enjoys drinking whiskey and writing to celebrities to tell them what they're doing wrong in their careers.

Reviews

[Ramon Douglass · Rating 1 out of 5]

Have you ever had a child with no epidural? A root canal with no medication? Stubbed your toe on the side of the bed in the dead of winter in the middle of the night? Bit the side of your mouth over and over again in the same spot? Had a hang nail and it continued to catch on everything before you could clip it? Have you ever in your life pour salt into a wound?

Well, let me tell you, I would recommend you do all of those things 25 times and twice more before you subject yourself to reading one chapter, nay, one page of of this crime against literature.

This is the reason they banned book in the very beginning.

I felt sorry for words while I was reading this poor piece of tree that gave its life so this person who is pretending to be an author could bore us to death with their musings.

Please consider watching paint dry or grass grow. It’s more exciting and less painful.