Alive or Dead

About the Book

Alive or Dead is narrated by Frederick B. Flutterbottom, a self-styled marriage guru who has little faith in professional counselors. He preps his target audience (intellectually disadvantaged husbands and hormonally enraged single men) with a short story in which a typical husband relives his seven-year marital fiasco. The manual following the story addresses various issues/problems that give rise to marital disharmony. Flutterbottom gives suggestions, but no advice. His approach is simplistic, based on the sort of reasoning the typical male employs: common sense, supplemented by tolerance, but complicated by intellectually superior wives.

About the Author

After writing two novels, the author needed therapy. One restless night, his dream self posed a question: Why not immerse yourself in laughter for two years? When his real self woke up, he did just that. The heightened state of delirium achieved during the writing of Alive or Dead is evident from the get go, nor does it wane in the latter pages of the manual. The author is a retired high-school English teacher. His passions are bowling, golf, and road races. He resides in Resaca, Georgia, where Sherman’s forces met significant resistance as they marched toward the sea.