Gone Like a Goldfish

An alcoholic novelist plans to kill himself after one last sex-filled trip to Japan with his ex, but a death in the family interrupts. As tragedies pile up, his teenage twins self-destruct. Sad, vulgar, disturbing, funny. Always free on KindleUnlimited. www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8L8GB2X

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Here is a 4-star review of Gone Like a Goldfish makinggoodstories.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/d...

If you've read Gone Like a Goldfish and want to ask me questions about it in the comments, I'll try to answer them. Today is the last day that it's free (but it's always free on Kindle Unlimited).

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Gone Like a Goldfish is free until 10/15 An alcoholic novelist plans to kill himself after one last sex-filled trip to Japan with his ex, but a death in the family interrupts. As tragedies pile up, his teenage twins self-destruct. Sad, vulgar, disturbing, funny. Always free on KindleUnlimited.

I'm just a deer staring into life's headlights for a few decades

Being insane is like needing to pee, in that drinking will bring it out faster, but it's coming out one way or the other eventually.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get a couple #BookTok reviewers to look at my book?

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As life goes on you start to notice the pattern - things get worse, then they get better, then they get worse, then they get better... knowing this helps you cope with the bad times, you know that this too will pass. But it always ends on a bad note. One time it will get worse and never get better.

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Have you ever gone through someone's phone or computer after they died, and did you find anything surprising?

Here is another positive review of Gone Like a Goldfish. "I don’t think I’ll read a more original book or one that will stay with me for longer any time soon." olganm.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/t...

Adult life in the 21st century mostly consists of clicking on things

Is there a site where you can get legitimate book reviews (i.e. honest reviews from real readers - paying for the site access is OK, but not paying for reviews). Don't say book sirens or book roar, they're both really bad.

Being a human is so embarrassing

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Confidence is just ability's shadow

Another 5-star review of Gone Like a Goldfish (free on Kindle Unlimited) "I don’t think I’ll read a more original book or one that will stay with me for longer any time soon. Read it if you can. And let’s hope the anonymous author of this novel keeps writing." www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

My book is polarizing, yay! That's better than a bunch of 4s and 5s, in my opinion. Read the sample and you'll have a pretty good idea of which way you'll land.

Sucks to be a hedonist with anhedonia

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time, then realizing you forgot your keys, going back for them, then losing sight of the shore for a very long time again.

I see pieces of cardboard laying around Seattle sometimes. Amazon branding on one side, but on the other it's a homeless person's sign written in marker, "anything helps," etc. Some of these pieces of cardboard will be in a museum one day.

A few days after my son died I saw some teenagers and asked if they went to school with him. They said yes. I started crying and I wanted to ask what he was like in school but instead asked "what was he like in person?" I was so embarrassed I just walked away.

I just thought of an idea for an event, "overshare in your underwear". There is an audience and a stage. You strip down to your underwear then go up on the stage and tell some incredibly personal story, then everyone claps and you put your clothes back on and sit down. Open mic or scheduled speakers

The waves in the ocean don't know what tides are, they don't know what the moon is. They think they are just deciding to jump around like that.

He does know all about putting things in a child’s body.

I fucking hate marketing, I suck at it and an anonymously written obscene dark humor book about child loss is a hard sell. I'm basically selecting random individuals and lobbying them to buy it at this point. Only sold 38 so far, but I have 4 ratings, all 5 stars (to be fair, one was from a friend)

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Longing for something that only has a 1% chance of happening hurts more than something you've completely given up on. Better to burn those bridges and sabotage everything so you don't get addicted to hope.

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The RNC will tell the truth from time to time, only unintentionally. 😂

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Any tips on how to get people to read your anonymously published book with hardly a cover and which is extremely obscene and sad? When it's 99 cents, or free on KU, price isn't the issue, and when all the ratings so far are all 5 stars, neither is quality.

My book is in the same genre as Slaughterhouse 5, or The Unbearable Lightness of Being, whatever genre that is. It's not as good, but in the same genre.

First review of Gone Like a Goldfish. It's free on Kindle Unlimited. "...at one point I stopped reading in admiration. 'Boy can this guy write' moments were off the charts. I expect I shall read it again before too long."

About to get on a plane. I expect this to be a bestseller by the time it lands.

I'm old but I like to go to bars to see the young people who are so happy because they don't know it's going to end. They are so oblivious to the horror that they are even able to dance. I've always known it's going to end. I've never danced. Every joy has been the tip of a mono no aware iceberg.

There is a unique pain associated with seeing another side to someone close to you, a side that isn't for you and will never be for you because it is only for other people, and will always be inaccessible to you.

There's a unique pain associated with seeing everyone around you grow up while you are unable to.

Pick a random number, 1-229. If it's not obscene or a spoiler, I'll post that page from my book.

Think of the last book you bought. How did you hear about it?