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Anders Flagstad's new novel Thad Says Parts Is Parts (And Thad Is Right) is a screwball comedy of errors straight from the vaults. Literally. It's an adaptation of the Roman playwright Plautus's comedy Epidicus, but set in 21st century LGBT San Francisco, and asking the often agonizing and perplexing question "Is it possible to be rich, gay, San Franciscan and happy, all at the same time?"Many are those who ask. Few are answered. Even fewer remember what the question was when the answer hits them squarely between the eyes with all the subtlety of a rapidly swung two-by-four. Eddie Stone - the hero of this and his own story - he happens to be one of those few people. Eddie ends up, as you can imagine, with a very sore head.Edward "Eddie" Stone is not a happy man - and he knows it.Eddie has embezzled, stolen, lied, repeatedly laundered stacks of well-worn twenty dollar bills and now local law enforcement is on to him and he's running out of places to hide and he did it all to save his 23 year-old son.Well, the boy's not really his son. Actually, they're not even related. But still, he did it for him. All of it. Honest.Paul Periphanitides, Mr. P., is Eddie's employer. He is also not a happy man. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't know that he's unhappy. Not yet. But he will. Soon.Ace Periphanitides, the young twenty-something Eddie's trying to save is pretty much always happy. He's rich, handsome, young, and goes through boyfriends like a sinus infection sufferer goes through boxes of Kleenex. Ace will end up very, very confused, very shortly.In this twisted and torturous tale of errors based on Plautus's favorite play Epidicus, sons are found and lost, love blossoms and then is rudely plucked, mother's hearts are mended and broken and mended again, much money changes hands, and destinies are chosen, sometimes involuntarily. There's also a couple of drunken brawls in some of the rougher neighborhood Lesbian bars.And of course, it all takes place in The City - the city by the bay, San Francisco. - The novel "Thad Says Parts Is Parts (And Thad Is Right)" is Book Two of the Principal Parts Series - Book One of the series is "Spare Parts", a collection of short stories to be out on Amazon in January 2014. Principal Parts is a set of interconnected books and characters about San Franciscans and how they got that way and what they do to stay that way and where they expect to go with all this stuff they're doing.

This is a book of short stories. Everybody has a story. Everybody has a life. So do buildings. We think we see buildings, we think we see people and we think we know them. But we don't. Not really. We see what we want to see. What actually goes on inside (people and buildings) - kidnapping, murder, love, death, betrayal, unwashed dishes, parties crashed by homeless men, drag queens leaving their apartments without a sun hat - it would shock and amaze you.So, what can you learn about life from the city of San Diego - land of beaches, palm trees, mesas, waterless deserts and demons and angels? This book of short stories attempts to answer that burning civic and personal question. What? What is there to learn?Angels are everywhere. In bowling alleys and department stores, on doomed European vacations and the tops of unlikely mountains.Drag Queens are everywhere.In sushi bar murders, in first-time love affairs, in condos and in taxis and just in general.Death is everywhere. In the light, in the dark, in the nostrils of deities.Life is everywhere.In kidnapping the handicapped, in terminal diseases, in haunted public transportation.Circles and wheels are everywhere.That is, if you know where to look for them. San Diego's a good place to start.

In a city on the edge of the continent - in a place where the real and the surreal melt in a foggy fondue and everything is possible - on streets where homeless people get heckled by defunct Roman Emperors, where lovers tell their futures by deciphering tattoos and Death is just one of many tenants barely making a living out of transient hotel, in such a city, what would it take surprise someone?Anders Flagstad's new collection of short stories and novellas - Spare Parts - is an answer of sorts and San Francisco is the city, of course. Spare Parts is book one of series - Principal Parts - a set of interconnected books and characters about San Franciscans and how they got that way and what they do to stay that way and where they expect to go with all this stuff they're doing.

What if you weren't comfortable in your own skin?What if you weren't comfortable in someone else's skin either?That wouldn't leave you with a lot of choices, would it?Paul Olsen isn't comfortableBut he has no cause to be that way.At least that's what everyone keeps telling him.He has everything a teenager could want. A large, happy family. Plenty to eat. A decent home. Friends. Best friends. A girlfriend even. Camping trips. Beer. Heck, Paul has had a Norman Rockwell, Northern Minnesota, All-American childhood in the 1930's when such childhoods weren't just possible, they were probable, and yet still Paul is not satisfied. What's wrong with him? There's a Depression and a War on, sure, but what does Paul have to complain about?Maybe the nagging suspicion that the Universe has him switching bodies when he least expects it?But, c'mon guys Who expects body-switching ? In rural Minnesota?Flesh sliding onto bones, new bones, not the right bones, well, it's a problem. Yes it is. And it's Paul's problem.