Little Yellow Stickies

by Rachael McIntosh

Overview

"Jocelyn McLaren is a beautiful, hard working, yet naive visual artist who, through a twist of fate, ends up working for a major US defense contractor during the lead up to the Iraq war. She unknowingly witnesses and unwittingly participates in crimes that haunt her and are ultimately interlinked with the most nefarious psychopaths on the planet.


Divided into three books, SECURITY THROUGH ABSURDITY is the story of corporate shenanigans, an unstable home life, and a quixotic presidential campaign. These situations propel Jocelyn through a believably bizarre journey and into dangerous psychological territory. In a matrix of life threatening situations, she is forced to question the very fabric of her GenX American upbringing.


BOOK ONE: Little Yellow Stickies
is the first of the SECURITY THROUGH ABSURDITY, series which follows the misadventures and development of the main character, Jocelyn McLaren."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150070127
Publisher:	EntropyPress
Publication date:	02/11/2015
Series:	Security Through Absurdity , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Almost two decades ago, I worked for a defense contractor during the day and made paintings at night. Half of me wanted to go back to Boston, where I had been illegally living in an old tuxedo factory making music (or more correctly noise), installation art, zines, and huge abstract oil paintings. The other half wanted to adapt and fit in with my new environment, to have money and live like those ordinary Americans you see on TV.Connecticut was supposed to be my shot at adulthood. And because it seemed like it might be a decent mix, I ended up becoming the Urban Artists Initiative coordinator for the cities of New London and Norwich. I would attend artists' meetings after work or on the weekends, teeter-tottering back and forth between the cool artist I had been when I lived in Boston and whatever the equivalent might be as a defense contractor. As much as I tried, I was never able to fully reconcile these two realities. Oil and water. At some point, I guess I took the easy way out and just accepted the defense-contractor thing as a theatrical role in order to get my head around it.
Now as I see the stuff that I was living through making the news and people becoming alarmed by it, I realize that what I experienced during my six-year stint may be an important document in some way. It was a time of technical transition and national transformation. Living through this with one foot in a paint-splattered combat boot and the other in a sensible heel is what compelled me to write this book.
Of course, everything in this trilogy has been fictionalized, meaning names have been changed and locations skewed. But some of what you will read is true and informs the next books in this series, which were developed in exactly the same way. Security Through Absurdity contains a string of moments saved in such a way that people might enjoy consuming this information while feeling safe to share it.