The Further Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
It’s 2024 and three-hundred-year-old Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Baron von Munchausen sits in a bar enjoying a glass of wine over a plate of kippers. The legendary spinner of tall tales and self-proclaimed “ambassador of the irrational” has just completed a whirlwind tour of America. Crisscrossing an increasingly divided nation, he’s settled a particularly perilous Supreme Court case (mercifully, with the loss of only three justices), verbally jousted with an evangelical preacher on the nature of divine love while riding a church through a tornado, and single-handedly solved the global climate crisis! Now it’s time for a well-earned respite.
Recounting these and other improbable adventures between puffs of an old briarwood pipe, Munchausen bends the ear of his drinking companion, a concerned citizen of the United States who, like many others, trembles for the future of democracy. Together the two contemplate the slow death of rationality in a free society, and whether fear and paranoia will ultimately triumph over hope and reason.
It begs the question: with the body politic at one another’s throats, and daily calls for book bans, wall building, and even civil war, can the fabled cannonball rider and raconteur extraordinaire take on his most outrageous adventure yet and save this country from itself?
Diary of a Heretic
Every man is possessed of one great sin.
Etienne Allard is a libertine. Carousing with prostitutes, gambling away his fortunes, and carrying on clandestine affairs with the married elite of Belle Époque Paris, he wiles away his days, and nights, drinking deeply from the cup of carnal delights both divine and devilish. But even pleasure has its limits.
So, when the infernal emissary Arman Sur appears with an offer of a life of sensual passions unimaginable in exchange for his soul, a deal is struck that will lead Etienne on a journey to the heights of rapture and the edge of madness.
Decades later, an ageless and aimless Etienne wanders the earth like Cain bemoaning his self-inflicted tortures. That is until fate intercedes, and the reappearance of a one-time enemy bearing a remarkable secret sets Etienne on a new journey to reap his own vengeance upon the devil and reclaim his lost soul.