So I'm trying my hand at nonfiction! Well, fiction that's very closely based on real life. I figure this will be my contemporary Grapes of Wrath. It's an idea I had that basically chronicles the life of a not-rich, not-poor but generally financially stable twenty-something in the midst of the biggest economic recession of America. I'm not confident that I'll finish it, or even continue beyond what I've written so far, but if I do, I like to think it'll become an inevitable classic and bore the hell out of high school sophomores in required reading assignments 100 years from now.

Tentatively entitled The Recession for now, or at least until I can come up with something better.

( Prologue )