Flag waving, gun loving, bible thumping...They’re the basic ingredients for a uniquely American recipe.  Season liberally, a term held in disdain, with hate and serve on a friendly, right wing media.  What you’ve got is Gun Lust.

Actor and gun enthusiast, Winston Lawton, recently elected president of the National Weapons Federation, is ecstatic because the Republicans, with NWF money and muscle, have taken control of Congress, buoying the Federation’s plans of arming every person in the country, young and old.  The crown jewel in their plan is a piece of legislation called the Citizen Self-Defense and Crime Control Bill, that essentially would legalize vigilantism, allowing citizens to gun down, with impunity, anyone they deem suspicious in some way or another.

Christian televangelist Jim Pennington, a staunch allie who rails against gun control on his television program, beamed throughout the country on his satellite television network, announces , while his guests Winston Lawton and Senate Majority leader Val Hall, look on, that God has told him that gun control is immoral and that if he prays, a savior will present himself.  That’s when Hall announces the plan to introduce the crime control bill, which thrills Pennington and his audience.

At the same time, Michael Klyter, leader of an obscure militia group called the Citizen Guard, happens to be home with a cold and watching what had just transpired makes him feel worse.  That’s because a few weeks earlier, he had been to Washington calling on right -wing politicians to promote his book, American: Love It Or Lose It.  Amongst those he paid a visit to was Val Hall.  He believed he should have been on Pennington’s program, too.  So did his wife, who after getting mad at him for not effectively promoting the book, offers to be his agent, which he agrees to and shortly thereafter, she pulls off a coup, getting him booked on the nationally heard radio talk show of R. Roger Purdy.  On the show, he’d be sharing the bill with Wanda Pushova, Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Weapons Federation.

Klyter’s appearance is a big success and he also forges a friendship with Pushova, which proves to be valuable, as it leads to a meeting with Winston Lawton and an offer of employment with the NWF.

But all is not well in the land of guns because of the strident militancy of People Against Handguns and their leader, Rita Powley.  After her husband was killed in a street crime, Powley made it her single minded mission to banish guns from the landscape of America and to that end, she and PAH members nationwide, have engaged in a campaign against the NWF, using any tactic or method to strike a blow against their enemy.  When the crime control bill is unveiled, Rita and her staff begin brainstorming to come up with a way to counter the NWF, the Republicans and their massive public relations campaign.  They do so by surreptitiously inserting a broadside into Sunday newspapers throughout the country, creating a great uproar.

Jim Pennington has also created a commotion for himself by sharing with his audience that while he was working on his guns, God called his name and then told him that he should  “Go forth for guns and God,” which leads him to stage a massive rally in Washington on Easter weekend called the “God and Guns Rally.”

The PAH decides, upon hearing this, to conduct a counter demonstration.  And while both sides make their plans, members of the Citizen Guard, flush with money that had been raised through a sham foundation Michael Klyter had started, are preparing to come to Washington at the same time to launch a war of liberation.

And on top of everything is the President, trying to convince one lone Congressman not to overide his veto of the crime control bill, doing battle with the NWF and Jim Pennington and trying to insure that Washington doesn’t go up in flames.

The year is 2090.

With warmth, humor, and affection, Alan Grande explains to his great-grandson, Jake, the events of the past century that led to the impending end of their lives. Their love for each other is palpable, as they face their final days with emotional strength and heartfelt tenacity.

Alan’s flashbacks portray the moral corruption of society, and depict the follies and absurdities of politics. The decisions made by the country’s leaders would take the nation in only one direction – toward disintegration and collapse. The Gladiators Wore Blue sketches some of the troublesome similarities between the histories of Ancient Rome and the United States.

Alan and Jake mentally examine the country’s failures, and the story builds as domino after domino falls, leading to the most catastrophic event of all.

You will embrace Alan and Jake with all your heart. Their final five days will draw on your feelings and heighten all your fears. Their tale is our tale. Their fate could be our fate. It’s all too possible.

Meet Ralph Plotkin—a Los Angeles lawyer whose career has gone into the tank. A recovering compulsive gambler who has stolen from his client's trust fund, Ralph is under investigation by the State Bar, and owes money to a Korean Mafia loan-shark. Reduced to crashing posh Hollywood parties to forage for food, Ralph is about to skip out to Mexico, when he encounters Iris Labelle, a wannabe actress and resigned anorexic and bulimic, who suggests that maybe her eating disorder stems from her childhood doll. The Bobbie Doll.  Not to be confused with Barbie, this child-like androgynous doll (who sometimes wears a nose-ring and tattoo) is flat-chested and Twiggy-thin—just like Iris.

Enter Charlie Kim—a Swarthmore grad posing as the head of the Korean Mafia who wants to be the next Steven Spielberg—and his cleaver wielding cousin, Genghis. When they threaten to make kimchi out of Ralph's index fingers, Ralph promises payment from the proceeds of a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the Bobbie Doll.  It seems the doll suffered from a design defect—it was unnaturally thin—which caused young women to suffer from anorexia and bulimia. "A sure winner.  We're suing for millions," says Ralph.

Readers who join Ralph in his efforts to promote a nuisance suit into a nationwide class action, will encounter intrigue, conspiracy, agents and double-agents, and a bizarre cast of malady-ridden characters that include a militant woman's movement, a  knuckle-cracking, megalomaniac defense attorney, the octogenarian, hypochondriac Chairman of a Korean conglomerate and his shaman priestess, a forensic psychiatrist suffering from agoraphobia, and thousands of emaciated young women who started out life with the Bobbie Doll—the doll of the Eighties and Nineties.

Slender Fantasies is a fast paced satire of the legal profession, that will keep you turning pages until the final plot-twisting denouement, when Ralph, facing insurmountable odds, stands alone in a David and Goliath courtroom confrontation to prove that playing with dolls—at least the Bobbie Doll—-really can be dangerous to a young girl's health.

Meet Ralph Plotkin—a Los Angeles lawyer whose career has gone into the tank. A recovering compulsive gambler who has stolen from his client's trust fund, Ralph is under investigation by the State Bar, and owes money to a Korean Mafia loan-shark. Reduced to crashing posh Hollywood parties to forage for food, Ralph is about to skip out to Mexico, when he encounters Iris Labelle, a wannabe actress and resigned anorexic and bulimic, who suggests that maybe her eating disorder stems from her childhood doll. The Bobbie Doll.  Not to be confused with Barbie, this child-like androgynous doll (who sometimes wears a nose-ring and tattoo) is flat-chested and Twiggy-thin—just like Iris.

Enter Charlie Kim—a Swarthmore grad posing as the head of the Korean Mafia who wants to be the next Steven Spielberg—and his cleaver wielding cousin, Genghis. When they threaten to make kimchi out of Ralph's index fingers, Ralph promises payment from the proceeds of a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the Bobbie Doll.  It seems the doll suffered from a design defect—it was unnaturally thin—which caused young women to suffer from anorexia and bulimia. "A sure winner.  We're suing for millions," says Ralph.

Readers who join Ralph in his efforts to promote a nuisance suit into a nationwide class action, will encounter intrigue, conspiracy, agents and double-agents, and a bizarre cast of malady-ridden characters that include a militant woman's movement, a  knuckle-cracking, megalomaniac defense attorney, the octogenarian, hypochondriac Chairman of a Korean conglomerate and his shaman priestess, a forensic psychiatrist suffering from agoraphobia, and thousands of emaciated young women who started out life with the Bobbie Doll—the doll of the Eighties and Nineties.

Slender Fantasies is a fast paced satire of the legal profession, that will keep you turning pages until the final plot-twisting denouement, when Ralph, facing insurmountable odds, stands alone in a David and Goliath courtroom confrontation to prove that playing with dolls—at least the Bobbie Doll—-really can be dangerous to a young girl's health.