Maranatha

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Maranatha is a work of contemporary urban homoerotic anthropomorphic fiction by Alex Vance. Set in Maranatha City, the story follows the sexy hustler Owen Zelazny, the thuggish rogue Q. I. Malloy, the innocent Alice and the Macchiavellian manipulator Tiber Ferrum, a high-ranking executive in Sargasso Holdings, Inc. -- among many, many others.

A soaring plotline binds a grand collection of characters together, ranging from the optimistic and hedonistic, to the thug who's just doing his job and the reprehensible psychopath. Prostitution, kidnapping, drugs and murder are of the order of the day. But it isn't all doom and gloom. Maranatha wouldn't have been entertaining if that were the case. Dashing characters leap off the page even when they aren't telling the story from their perspective -- and when they are, there's no stopping them. Raucous black humour, odds-defying action and steamy, white-hot sex continue to draw readers back for each new chapter.

The story was started at the end of November 2004 when the author abandoned the fantasy project he'd been writing for the National Novel Writing Month. Three sleepless nights later he had penned thirty thousand words, passing the fifty thousand word requirement less than a week after that.

At nineteen chapters and roughly 190 000 words long, Maranatha is currently unfinished. Alex Vance suffered repetitive strain injury to the first fingers of his right hand in 2006 and decided to curtail his writing activities to sustain his health. As of 2007, he's working with artist Ayato and colorist Distasty on a followup graphic novel titled Heathen City, which will be set two or three years after the events in Maranatha, and provide some clues as to what happened in Maranatha. Owen Zelazny and Q.I. Malloy have been confirmed as appearing in the first issue, due to be released at Anthroconn 2008.