{"id":439,"date":"2014-03-08T23:21:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T23:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everywritersresource.com\/selfpublished\/?p=439"},"modified":"2017-07-13T04:25:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T04:25:33","slug":"foxavier-and-plinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/selfpublished\/foxavier-and-plinka\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxavier and Plinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Foxavier and Plinka<\/h2>\n<h2><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-440 size-medium\" title=\"Foxavier and Plinka\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/selfpublished\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/foxavierandplinka-199x300.jpg?resize=199%2C300\" alt=\"Foxavier and Plinka\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/selfpublished\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/foxavierandplinka.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/selfpublished\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/foxavierandplinka.jpg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/selfpublished\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/foxavierandplinka.jpg?resize=624%2C936&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/selfpublished\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/foxavierandplinka.jpg?w=1333&amp;ssl=1 1333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.everywritersresource.com\/selfpublished\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/foxavierandplinka.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>Author<\/h2>\n<p>Scott Evans<\/p>\n<h2>Author Bio<\/h2>\n<p>After many years struggle with OCD and depression, and with the help of The Mental Health Association, Mr. Evans has found his sweetheart, written a novel, and currently facilitates the Writing Workshop at The Creative Wellness Center,<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Foxavier Jostleplume struggles with his weight, mental illness, poverty, and loneliness. He lives on the ragged edge of society where broken people subsist on the crumbs left by the whole and affluent, while a billion-dollar corporate food conglomerate has accidentally dumped an overdose of an additive to a batch of their best-selling cookies that will trigger schizophrenia in anyone who eats them. In the midst of all this Foxavier meets Plinka Goose, a beautiful woman who is as broken as he is; their on-again, off-again romance forms a unstable star around which Foxavier&#8217;s life describes a skewed orbit as he finds his place in the world as an artist, writer, and social activist as he and Plinka take on the evil food conglomerate and their toxic cookies.<\/p>\n<h2>Book excerpt<\/h2>\n<p>My life is not so much a life, as a series of awkwardnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m The Pretty Pie Girl. I&#8217;m The Pretty Pie Girl,\u201d the TV blares her chipmunk voice as she waltzes with a chocolate cookie. Her adorable face sirens, \u201cYou&#8217;re my Ookie Ookie Cookie.\u201d Computer generated smile happier than human. She&#8217;s a pie with tiny gloved arms, and booted legs. She twirls. \u201cYou&#8217;re my Ookie Ookie Cookie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her dark partner croons in lowest bass, \u201cI&#8217;m your Ookie Ookie Cookie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I select a box from the cupboard, The Hexachocolator, a six sided cake with six kinds of chocolate. In bright yellow letters it proclaims, \u201cZero Grams Trans Fat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The giggling pie slides down the side of the bowl, and shouts to the world, \u201cKooky Cookies are part of a nutritious breakfast,\u201d and splashes into the milk.<\/p>\n<p>Crack two eggs. Use olive oil not grease. The box says one cup, but use half. One cup, that&#8217;s crazy. Beat the mix with wooden spoon.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201creal\u201d children, one fifth as cartoonish, bang their silver to the musical and chant, \u201cOokie Ookie Cookie!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How many impressionable minds watch this whorescrappening? \u201cOokie ookie cookie!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A woman&#8217;s voice says, \u201cCapsulsgrave Confections are made by mothers, for mothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pie Girl squeaks the last word, \u201cFor the love of food.\u201d The commercial is over. The volume drops to inaudible. We now continue with our regular programming.<\/p>\n<p>Pour batter into stainless steel bowl. Bake at 375.<\/p>\n<p>Go upstairs. Barry is on his bed, so fat he struggles not to roll off. I feel skinny by comparison, lithe and fierce, like a tiger.<\/p>\n<p>Lie on my bed. Open the logic puzzle magazine. Draw chart in bent spiral pad, low on blue ink, which makes solving puzzle too easy. Bored. Get up.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say to Barry? Good luck with your operation? He&#8217;s so fat, they have to cut his legs off at the knees. He&#8217;s going to be in a wheelchair. I will not end up like him. I will eat normal portions. It&#8217;s not that hard. Work out an hour a day. No seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Get off bed. \u201cGood luck with your operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says \u201cThank you,\u201d between breaths, oxygen hose in nostril.<\/p>\n<p>Look down at my coat at the bottom of the winding banister. Burt is in my pocket stealing a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>Go to office and tell Diane, perfect face and body, no chance she would ever want me. Staff can&#8217;t date residents, but even if they could, she wouldn&#8217;t. Her baby doll eyes, button nose, and puckering lips tell me, \u201cOfficial West House policy is not to leave things out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sit on couch in TV-room to fill out an application for the Office of Disabled Services, so I can go to school.<\/p>\n<p>Pat sits on the other couch with blond French poodle hair, and smokes, every so often turning her head to the side and back, like a chicken.<\/p>\n<p>Oh boy, here we go: ETHNIC GROUP. They don&#8217;t even ask name first.<\/p>\n<h2>Author Website<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/FoxavierAndPlinka.blogspot.com\">http:\/\/FoxavierAndPlinka.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Best place to buy your book<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=foxavier\">Foxavier and Plinka<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxavier Jostleplume struggles with his weight, mental illness, poverty, and loneliness. 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