Jeff Andrus
Editor and Writing Coach
jeffandrus.com : 2000 Archives
Site last published: 4/5/08 5:57 PM
The screenplay features an urban sophisticate who
flees a cheating husband, stumbles across a murdered
family at a remote crossroads and is chased on foot
into the mountains by their hired killers. A redneck
hunting guide seems to be waiting like a knight in
armor, offering an off beat love interest, but it's
his macho butt that she has to save. Meanwhile hubby
thinks he's coming to the rescue.
This novella provides social satire wrapped up in
sci-fi/fantasy. Joe Smith looses his wife, his job
and his car all on the same day but not his desire to
be somebody, so he volunteers to be the first average
guy to be shot into sub-orbit in a spare parts rocket
cobbled together by amateurs.
This short story starts in a Pocatello shopping mall
and races for a Pearl Jam concert in California as
three punk kids who don't care if they die kidnap an
old man who used to think he didn't want to live.
My father hired me to edit his novel, and it took us
about seven years to finish the first volume. He
wrote a sequel, but I was too beat to help him with
it. Last I heard, some Chinese were going to publish
both in Mandarin.
This was written as a Presidential “Election Special”
explaining the Clinton Administration in the guise of
a horror story. It contains graphic sex, gratuitous
violence and bathroom humor that Tipper Gore would
rightfully condemn. Also, scenes of deceit and denial
that her husband unfortunately learned to accept as
just part of everyday life.
This short story thrust this site into the ether of
the great world-wide web in June of the new
millennium. It reveals the raw, throbbing heart of
show business through a politically correct narrator
who borrows a line or two from Pat Hobby, the drunk,
out-of-work screenwriter created by F. Scott
Fitzgerald.