How to Dispose of Dead Elephants

Stubb Marakas - one of those 20 year-olds who indefinitely occupies his parents' attic - awakes one morning with the insatiable urge to doodle over Aesop fables. Aided by his best friend, Mark Connor (a swashbuckling Korean adoptee), the two set out to find the meaning behind this sudden craving, embarking on a journey which will force the two friends to come to grips with not only Stubb's reemerging epilepsy and Mark's unknown origins, but also the failing health of their childhood guru, an old Greek trickster called 'Papou'. This is a comical, engaging, and wise debut novel. Andrew Gretes' short stories and poems have appeared in Fiction Fix, The Monarch Review, and Emerge Literary Journal. He currently writes and teaches in Washington D.C.