Along with her mentor/savior/father figure, Alvin, there is Boyle, an insane (and disgusting) hit man bent on her destruction, and Josefina, a past association of Alvin’s seemingly further down her road to control of the direction of her life. Wednesday is certainly the focus of the narrative, even when not present in the scene, but she shares the pages with some brilliant supporting characters as well. At its core the story is a tale of the battle of innocence and the heart against ignorance and cruelty. Its criticism of our world today mixed with acidic and biting humor is an undeniable stroke of genius. This novel is an inspired exploration of humanity. These days he can be found still writing, drinking coffee with friends, or spending time with his children (the true joys of his life), in Western Kentucky. Even his fictional characters and worlds carry enough of the grey areas we experience in day-to-day life, to let us find the truth in his words, no matter how fantastic. He writes people we know, love we've known and lost (and found again), and places we've been in our lives and in our heads. Inspired by Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Frank Miller, Joss Whedon, Chrissie Pappas, Charles Bukowski, Stephen King, Douglas Adams, Issac Asimov, and countless classic literary influences, Dennis continues with the ability to write what at a glance might seem absurd, but quickly begins to resonate with our own thoughts and emotions. The voices in his head don't ever stop talking to him, and so sooner or later he has to get out onto a page all that they've filled him up with. He has spent many late nights at diners and dives, drinking coffee with a tattered notebook to put a voice to his feelings of himself and the world around him, and other worlds that can exist only in fiction. His mother has told many people about the fantasy and science fiction stories he'd write on scraps of paper, and staple together as his 'books', before he'd attended his first day of formal education. Born and raised in the middle of the American Midwest, Dennis Sharpe has been a writer as long as he can remember.

Wednesday by Dennis Sharpe