CuriousPages.com showcases the writing of Fletcher Kovich. In his sketchbook, you can read his notes on writing the works, and also his comments on many other topics. His fiction tends to be comic, thoughtful and quirky.
NEW WORKS
The Armchair Ballet Dancer
Short story. To the outside world, Benjamin Clark seems unusually happy, but this only masks his inner turmoil as he struggles to live with the consequences of a single reckless decision he made at the age of eighteen. Read more>>
A Substitute Passion
Short story. Mandy Truman is accident prone when wearing stiletto heels. The story starts comically but has a sobering end. Read more>>
Irresistible Temptation
Short story. An old man offers me some simple advice but I am unable to fully understand his words until forty years later. Read more>>
Daniel and the Wine Stain
Short story. In one way or another, we are all disabled. Daniel’s disabilities are not immediately obvious, yet when he is forced to face them, he becomes overwhelmed. Read more>>
Sketchbook
Nonfiction. My notes on the writing of fiction, on Chinese Medicine phenomena, on travel, people, dreams, and other topics. Read more>>
Choosing the Right Drinks
Short story. How do we choose to spend our life? And is our chosen path of any value? Joseph is dying and is troubled by the choices he made in life. Clemency, his nurse, has no answers for him but his turmoil enables her to heal her own deep wounds. Read more>>
The Price to Pay
Short story. A humorous and shocking tale about the consequences of overspending. Read more>>
The Whimpering Beach
Short story. In a tropical paradise, the boundaries are blurred between love and terrorism—but then perhaps those boundaries are blurred everywhere. Read more>>
The Beckoning Precipice
Short story. A doctor, who is racked by guilt, is contemplating suicide, but are his misdeeds imaginary? Read more>>
The Tragedy of Homisidehampton
A comic, allegorical novel about the communication problems that drive a whole town into a frenzy of murderous activity. Read more>>
Shorter works
Short pieces of fiction, poems, prose poems,
nonsense poems, or other short pieces of writing that don't seem to fit anywhere else. Read more>>