This is the first episode of a graphic novel by the cranky novelist and columnist Alon Preiss, and it is somewhat fictionalized in one important respect.

“I am alive and well,” Preiss tells us, “though it will not be ever thus. So while this story is currently fiction, someday, perhaps soon, it will cease to be so.”

The once-great Audere Magazine published three installments of this story before apparently ceasing publication, which we reprint here.

CHAPTER ONE: IN WHICH PREISS DIES

TO BE CONTINUED

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Alon Preiss is the author of A Flash of Blue Sky (2015) and In Love With Alice (2017), which are out of print, but were originally published by Chickadee Prince Books. His third novel, I Knew Her Once/Long Ago, was originally under contract to be published by Chickadee Prince Books.