Larry Kovaks, PI

Barcelona's premier "guiri" detective. He fights vice. It's all over this burg. And he's got the dope on it.

This is an ongoing web journal involving Larry Kovaks - a ham-fisted, hard-boiled private detective who single-handedly tries to stop petty theft in Barcelona. He's the brawn, I'm the brains.

The first 6 in this series were published in BCN Week in the weekly column Paco Privado. Kovaks is now being published on a monthly basis in The New Entertainer. Read them in their .pdf format, or on kovakspi.blogspot.com (regularly updated with exclusive unpublished material)

The Drop Cigarette Con
False Friends
The Bouncing Cartoon
(Un)friendly Helpers
The Soccer Trick Con
The Nit Bus Special
The Upskirt Con
Variations of the Gypmeister Raptor Con
The Fake Baby Con (on smokebox.net)
The Cloaking Con
One Crooked Kitten part 1
One Crooked Kitten part 2

Traducido al español

Le Caso del "Voyeur" (The Upskirt Con)
Estefadores Disfrazados (The Cloaking Con)

(2006 - present)

The Bedroom Revolutionary

NEW!! The entire book is now online. You can read it free, or simply preview it, here: bedrev.blogspot.com
Or you can support me by buying the printed version, designed by myself: on sale for $13
(2004)

Riding the Super Buick
(an excerpt from The Bedroom Revolutionary)
originally published on smokebox.net
(2004)

 

Memoirs from the Circus
A departure for me. This is the story that set the sylistic tone for my book, The Bedroom Revolutionary. Set in the late 90s in the Tenderloin, San Francisco.
originally published on 3ammagazine.com
(2002)

 

Slice-of-life-vignette-story
With this little yarn I tackle the most pervading story form on the internet - the vignette type story. Although, I do put my own spin on it.
Two people, two relationships, and two very different ways of dealing with things.
originally published on wordriot.org
(2005)

 

Ed Henry
An old novella. Simple, brassy language.
A tale of trashy love and finding the muse.
(2001)

 

Frank & Yvonne
This is one of my first stories. Don't look for profound meaning. It's light comedy, and meant to be that way.
Love is disastrous.
(2000)

 

Connie from California
Connie's got big hair and a big mouth. It's not pleasant to be around either.
(2001)

 

Epilogue for a dreamer
Barney is obsessed with books; so much so his life starts to mimic the fiction he's reading. Too bad it's tawdry pulp fiction ...
(2005)

 

more coming soon ...