Chapter One: In Search of Levity From Men In Their Prime
A novel by Tom Verkozen and Marianne Rogoff

After 2 ½ years mumbling about ‘the book’ offering you a glimpse of a cleaned up, late revision of Chapter One is definitely overdue. Below is a snapshot of Chapter One:

Victor Maas clenches and flexes in the hallway mirror. “You are a short, naked, 49-year-old Marin County Realtor with zero prospects. GRrrrrrrrrrrr!”

He laughs at himself.

No one lives with Victor anymore – Jeb and Max, his oppositional twins, are in luxury colleges far away and Mildred, his once-beloved, now-ex wife, has checked into a pricey local psych ward that he can’t afford either – so he talks freely to his own reflection and to Fairchild, his slobbery, old, brown-and-white St Bernard.

“I can barely support us anymore, Fairchild, let alone the three who moved out!” Victor turns sideways and sucks in his chubby little gut.

At the front doorstep he stoops for the morning paper and shows Fairchild the scary headline: REAL ESTATE CRISIS HITS HOME.

>> Read all of Chapter One by clicking here.


Delight, Light and looking for you to let me know what this intro does for you.


Posted by:Tom Verkozen