The Fictionary Part One

Are there any burning questions that constantly bother you? Are you satisfied with the answers you’re getting? No? Well then why not give the Fictionary a try? It’s guaranteed to give you all the answers you’ll ever need, and top-quality ones too!



The Fictionary is a gnarled leather-bound book that answers a question by telling a story within which lies the answer. The only forbidden question is ‘What is the Fictionary?’ This because it is not a book at all; it is a portal between the Realm of Reality and the Realm of Reason, the dwelling place of the Lords of Reason; Who, What, Why, Where, When & How.



The Fictionary is a light-hearted fantasy-adventure-comedy in two parts: Part One – Beyond Reality and Part Two – Beyond Reason. Part One tells the story of a teenage girl, Codoné, and how she stumbles upon the Fictionary along with its enigmatic keeper, Œfiauce. After she has experienced answers to a couple of her questions in the form of short stories, Codoné eventually asks the forbidden question and enters the Realm of Reason where she encounters the six Lords of Reason who help her escape back to Reality. But the reality she returns to is not the one she departed from; it is a parallel reality within which lurks a renegade seventh Lord of Reason.



An essential element of The Fictionary is the stories that the book tells Codoné. In Part One there are two main ones: firstly, Scents of Perspective (The Tale of Miss Ellany) about some garden snails led by a wise old snail, Konch, who communicate by producing smells and a comical cad called Cousin Harry who tries to exploit them; and secondly, The Dawn of Civilisation (The Tale of Elli & Ovi’s Quest) about two cavemen brothers in prehistoric times who go in search of God’s lunch box and along the way encounter exotic beasts such as a hen-pecked-fatty-puss, Al a mythological creature who can fly and the two nevasaurus cousins, Hopi and Wishi (as in ‘Hope-he-never-saw-us’ and ‘Wish-he-never-saw-us’).