Preface to the First Edition Chapter 1: Starman Chapter 2: Cousin Julia Chapter 3: The Amadeus Effect Chapter 4: Fake Fiction Chapter 5: New Balls, Please! Chapter 6: Time Flies When You're Having Fun KEY RACE ALERT Chapter 7: Psychology 101 Chapter 8: Brief Reply to a Hideous Critic Chapter 9: My Annus Mirabilis Chapter …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 12)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 12 A Return to Normalcy Oh, what a glorious day! Early this morning, Psychology 713 and I were walking through the woods chatting about this, that and the other, as lovers often will, when she happened to mention that it was the first of May. “That reminds me of …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 11)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 11 Meeting my Maker In the beginning, there was light. More specifically, in Full o’Bull’s basement study, the rice paper lantern hanging from the ceiling was casting a circle of light on the floor directly underneath it. Big deal, you might say, as would I under normal circumstances. But …
LOCKDOWN IN AMSTERDAM (Chapter 10)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 10 We Ferrymen of the Fourth Dimension Tomorrow’s the big day folks, the day that an honest-to-goodness Dutch princess will be presenting me with a golden compass for providing the people of her kingdom with “a sense of direction in these troubled times”. Have I been working on my …
LOCKDOWN IN AMSTERDAM (Chapter 9)
Lockdown in Amsterdam - Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel CHAPTER 9 My Annus Mirabilis Time flies when you’re having fun. I’ve said so before. But by golly, folks, is it really 2021 already? Now I’m sure a lot of you will look back on 2020 as an “annus horribilis”. There was the pandemic, of course, …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 8)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 8 Brief Reply To a Hideous Critic David Foster WallaceFull o' Bull Linda, my personal assistant, just struck gold. She discovered a review of Full o’ Bull’s first novel, The Wild Numbers, in an old issue of Science. That’s a damned prestigious scientific journal, right up there with Nature …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 7)
Mammatus Clouds, otherwise known as Sky Breasts Lockdown in Amsterdam - Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 7 Psychology 101 “You know what your problem is, Toby?” I’ve been asked on various occasions by various girlfriends. “No,” I will say, “but something tells me I’m about to find out.” I’ve always regarded introspection as an …
Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our regular writing to bring you the following important announcement: Poor Full o’ Bull. For days now, he has been glued to the television set watching CNN’s coverage of the US presidential elections. Not me. In fact, if it had been up to me, I would have steered clear of …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 6)
The Steve Miller Band Featuring King MacBee: Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 6 Time Flies When You're Having Fun Today was a special day for a whole bunch of reasons. Linda called me this afternoon to tell me that Lockdown in Amsterdam now boasts 40,000 subscribers. Forty-thousand! Let’s see now... at a buck-fifty per …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 5)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel CHAPTER 5 New Balls, Please! I’ve never been a big sports fan. Whether it’s the rules of the game or the lines painted on the grass or the gym floor, from the umpire yelling “strike!” to the referee blowing his whistle to the linesman waving his flag, nowadays assisted by …
