Welcome to Fictitious Books fibs, the creative online library, where reality is a pale imitation of fiction. The books on display in this portal may seem real enough, but that’s just an illusion. They are fictional narratives, flights of the imagination, daydreams, hallucinations and fairy tales – fictitious narratives that have one thing in common – they pay only lip service to reality.
Fictional Forms
These fictional narratives are best described as `fibs’. The design of these illusory stories has many forms fashioned by the fertile imaginations of their imaginary authors – blog posts, short stories, flash fiction, novels, fantasy, dystopia, drama, podcasts and essays:
Imaginary Authors
Authors at Fictitious Books are not who they seem to be at first sight either. Most of them prefer to remain elusive. They have created their own original cover stories to conceal their true personalities. Explore the writings of the following ten imaginary authors in search of an identity: Zeb Solitanu, Odette Chesnay, Lucy Engellis, George Ithaka, Scarlett Moonstone, Naomi Quicke, Sienna Roxlade, Michael Scriven, Marec Slivenich and Isobel Vellacott.
Michael Scriven fibs
Michael Scriven fibs, an émigré from the sphere of non-fiction and founder of this creative online library, invites you to delve into the illusory world of Fictitious Books, a collection of fictional narratives written by ten phantom authors.
Who’s telling fibs at Fictitious Books?
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Creative Online Library
Explore the following fictitious tales available in the fibs creative online library:
Drama in a penthouse suite in London – following the death of highly successful entrepreneur and businessman, Oliver Maynard-Oakshotte, only one of three people can, in accordance with the terms of his will, inherit a four billion pound fortune. Who will it be? His son, Francis Maynard-Oakshotte, or one of the two principal women in his life, Ingrid Lindstrom and Stella Bowers? They have three hours to decide who it is to be be. For the decision to be valid, all three of them must be in complete agreement. If they cannot decide by the stroke of midnight, none of them will receive a penny and the entire estate will be bequeathed to Oliver Maynard-Oakshotte’s favourite London art gallery. The deliberately adversarial nature of the terms of the deceased entrepreneur’s final will and testament pits the three characters against one another in a bitter triangular personal confrontation – Triangles: Power, Money and Choice – A Fictitious Play in two Acts
Downward Spirals by George Ithaka
Daniel Harte, a social science student at the LSE, had from an early age been fascinated by tales of revolutionary violence. So he didn’t have a moment’s hesitation in accepting the invitation of his best friend André Rivette, to join him in Paris in May1968 to witness at first hand the nascent student uprising. What happened in Paris, however, proved to be more complicated and disturbing than the revolutionary scenarios that he’d studied in books.
Magical Miranda by Scarlett Moonstone
In a series of fourteen short stories about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances, Scarlett Moonstone explores the dilemmas of everyday living in the contemporary world: Magical Miranda, Aquatic Sky, Splash, Eurostar Kiss, Lightning Drop, Alternative World, Oscar’s Lament, Six Days, The Camden Strangler, Valentine, After the Flood, Wildcat, Millennium Yesterdays, Forgetting Zoe.
Counterfeit by Michael Scriven
Paul Chandler had thought that being a newspaper reporter would make his life more interesting. And it did. But not in the way he’d expected. Unwittingly involved in a murder and an international counterfeiting operation, he and his best friend Joe, a freelance photographer, soon realise that their lives are in imminent danger as they are drawn relentlessly into an escalating criminal conspiracy that coincides with the outbreak of the Second World War. Counterfeit is a novel of love, friendship, deception, loss, survival and deliverance that begins on a tranquil beach in Sussex in August 1939 and ends amidst the destruction and carnage of the beaches of Dunkirk in May1940.
Monsters of Narratokia by Isobel Vellacott
Calypso had always been disappointed with her life in Swiss Cottage. Her discovery of the Narratok DreamBook transforms everything. In a dream about the French revolution, she meets a bionic cat called Atomic and her real father, King Benevol of Narratokia. From that moment on, she is plunged into a rollercoaster adventure divided between epic battles with the terrifying monsters of Narratokia and difficult conversations with her friends in Swiss Cottage who think that she is going mad. Join Calypso on her journeys to Narratokia as she attempts to rescue King Benevol from imprisonment and restore him to his throne. Witness at first hand her struggles to defeat the fire-breathing Rhinotaur, the monstruous Tentaculopod, the awe-inspiring Croculosaurus, the demonic watchdog Rottsnarler, and Blackheart himself, Terrox the Terrible, who rules Narratokia with an iron fist from the temple of the God Cyclon.
Brevity lies at the heart of Short Fibs. As both contributor and editor of this concise fictional book, Michael Scriven offers an assortment of microfiction, flash fiction and short short stories written by ten fibs authors: Daylight Robbery, Mobile Escape, The Sicilian Alternative, Egg, Exploding Love, False Dialogue, Special Day, Plague, Jigsaw Julie, Punch Line Flash, Labels, Two-Faced, 13 Black, Watershed, Ludovic, Murder Mystery.
Anticlockwise Journal by Zeb Solitanu
Extraterrestrial Illuminated Fiction
Dystopia defines the Anticlockwise Empire. Anticlockwise is a dystopia of fear and nightmares, a dystopia of surveillance and isolation, a dystopia of despair…Anticlockwise Journal offers a chilling portrait of life in Globopolis, the capital city of the Anticlockwise Empire. The journal was discovered in the secret files of the Globopolis police department. It records the daily life of a citizen called Zeb Solitanu who had been under surveillance by the authorities for several years. Citizen Solitanu was suspected of harbouring and disseminating subversive ideas through his scribblings in Solitanu’s Blog.
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