Try Morality: "The play of life is, in fact, entirely based on how you act"

by Harry Lang

"The Play of life,
Is, in fact
Entirely based
On how you act".

Try Morality is a novel of ten stories, each themed around many and varied moral quandaries. Starting in the trenches of Thiepval in World War 1 you'll meet Chappy Snowden, a man for whom life is worth considerably less than the value of a friendship. You'll then move to a post-apocalyptic future where Ishmael’s role as a Moral Guardian among four hundred survivors is to ascertain where mankind’s moral compass should point.

Next, Soren Kam - an SS Officer escaping Berlin with his lover Luna and friend, fellow Nazi Obersturmführer Herman. It’s Luna’s moral choices that Ishmael is asked to observe and arbitrate in the future.

You’ll also get to meet these characters and more along the way:-

A father destroyed by the rape of his teenage daughter, intent on the most hideous revenge imaginable
Lucy Foulds, a pensioner poet unable to unburden herself from childhood abuse
Grant Schwartz – a gambling entrepreneur who wants to take down the Billionaire classes
Oswald Cunting Dory, a Tourette’s sufferer with OCD trying to get his friends out of a stereotype
The director of R&D for British American Tobacco – enacting a lifelong plan to end big Tobacco
Simon Pendecker – a British spy turned deep cover estate agent. He’s James Bond, if Bond were an utter bastard

‘Try Morality’ is David Mitchell meets Douglas Coupland with a smattering of Julian Barnes and the subterfuge of Irvine Welsh.

Try Morality is fun in parts, sad in others and occasionally drops into the dark, where at its core it holds a moral ambiguity that is the essence of everyone’s lives.

280 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 21, 2014

About the author

I work as a technical designer for an aerospace corporation during the day and write when I can. I have a BFA in painting from Philadelphia College of Art.

I am a winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future competition. My novelette "My Name is Angela" appears in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 28. I have a number of stories and poems posted at www.bewilderingstories.com and have been privilaged to be a review editor for Bewildering Stories.