This book contains 50 stories, as told by myself and my fictional Uncle Elmer. The stories are factual things, places, events, inventions, but anything to do with "The Cantrell Family" or any of our ancestors, well that part is tarnished truth and facts with fabrication.

Original publication and copyright date: 2009.

A fact and Fabrication Consommé is a collection of short stories covering several topics. If you enjoy humor, factual events, and romance you will definitely enjoy this book. There are also lessons to be learned that lay between the lines. Reading short stories is refreshing in that topics and characters are constantly changing. 'A Fact and Fabrication Consommé' offers something for everyone.

Stitches together essays, reviews and short stories that make a comment on the process of writing.

An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner. The shift from the early information age to our 'infocalypse' era of rampant misinformation has given rise to an art form that probes this confusion, foregrounding wild creativity as a way to reframe assumptions about both fiction and art in contemporary culture. At its center, this "fictive art" (LaFarge's term) is secured as fact by employing the language and display methods of history and science. Using typically evidentiary objects such as documentary photographs and videos, presumptively historical artifacts and relics, didactics, lectures, events, and expert opinions in technical language, artists create a constellation of manufactured evidence attesting to the artwork's central narrative. This dissimulation is temporary, with a clear "tell" often surprisingly revealed in a self-outing moment. With all its attendant consequences of mistrust, outrage, and rejection, this genre of art with a sting in its tale is a radical form whose time has come.