Potential publisher or agent,
Tom, short for Tomorrow, wakes up in the morning and after a false start, prepares to go about his day with a routine that he mistakes for the freedom he secretly wants. In an explicitly ‘and then’ story, facilitated by a robbery from something more than human, his directionless quest to get his money back takes place over the course of one day. It has him witness and participate in increasingly surreal scenes with odd characters that will invite him to join them. These include a job interview at a story factory, a flightless melancholy albatross, toasting with a cursed goblet, a battle with a dragon, and encounters with the crazy men that fill in the cracks of the city. Tom is always willing to help but resists the call to adventure for his own selfish reason until he can make sense of his memory, reconcile his hypocrisy, face the truth, and set himself free to start his own adventure.
Gas Station Sushi and the Ballad of the Last Dragon: A Song of Tears and Puke (50,000 words) is a drunken, quotidian odyssey, a trashy nihilistic whirlwind that surrounds an interior of genuine sentiment and meaning. It is completely made up, there is nothing about it that is political or historical or factual, and it is weird and funny. The book will appeal to readers of humorous fiction in the style of Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five) and Terry Pratchett (The Colour of Magic) and Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Le Petit Prince) if the little prince was on crack. Themes include crying and puking.
I did no research for Gas Station Sushi, I have lived in the uncanny city setting of the book my whole life. I have never written a book before and I have no credentials or awards.
Thank you for your consideration
Matthew Cameron
Matthew Cameron 
Potential publisher or agent,
Tom, short for Tomorrow, wakes up in the morning and after a false start, prepares to go about his day with a routine that he mistakes for the freedom he secretly wants. In an explicitly ‘and then’ story, facilitated by a robbery from something more than human, his directionless quest to get his money back takes place over the course of one day. It has him witness and participate in increasingly surreal scenes with odd characters that will invite him to join them. These include a job interview at a story factory, a flightless melancholy albatross, toasting with a cursed goblet, a battle with a dragon, and encounters with the crazy men that fill in the cracks of the city. Tom is always willing to help but resists the call to adventure for his own selfish reason until he can make sense of his memory, reconcile his hypocrisy, face the truth, and set himself free to start his own adventure.
Gas Station Sushi and the Ballad of the Last Dragon: A Song of Tears and Puke (50,000 words) is a drunken, quotidian odyssey, a trashy nihilistic whirlwind that surrounds an interior of genuine sentiment and meaning. It is completely made up, there is nothing about it that is political or historical or factual, and it is weird and funny. The book will appeal to readers of humorous fiction in the style of Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five) and Terry Pratchett (The Colour of Magic) and Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Le Petit Prince) if the little prince was on crack. Themes include crying and puking.
I did no research for Gas Station Sushi, I have lived in the uncanny city setting of the book my whole life. I have never written a book before and I have no credentials or awards.
Thank you for your consideration
Matthew Cameron
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