The following five stories were told in lieu of reading books. The books were either not there, in grandparents house, or some of them were read too many times and found boring. The drawings were done in response to live-stories. Photographs were taken from public domain and altered in some instances

Young Austrian male embarks on a journey to United States in search of his family. He has only scant and contradictory information about his grandfather Leslav lost in the turmoil after WWII. The first search trip to US ends in a fiasco. Subsequently, with help of Jewish friends, he was able to find diary of his late grandfather. During the second trip the Austrian is able to interview the surviving members of his Yankee Family: grandfather's mistress Lydia, her daughter Claire, her son Tom. He also gets access to legal file of Lydia's husband, Milton. The novella is a series of psychological...

Patricia, a woman in her thirties attended a Halloween masquerade of: MY YANKEE FAMILY (see other novella by this author) staged in the family castle near Vienna. Impressed by the show she challenges the young author, Greorg, to go, with her on a trip to a foreign country of his choice. He accepts the challenge. They meet in London and proceed to go to Portugal. His expectations for an immediate romantic/sexual affair end in a disappointment. Elsie, an English girl with freckles fills the void. The longing for Patricia persists. When she offers to meet him in Paris he takes the second chance....

Greorg, the narrator in two previous volumes of My Yankee Family moves to Whangarei, New Zealand to start a new chapter of his life. There he is arrested and charged with sexual molestation of Lolita, a girl resembling the heroine of Nabokov's novel. The country is in the mids of controversy about Coddington Index, just published. Initially the press publishes condemning stories about him but, gradually it comes to his help. Greorg is released from jail, publishes a controversial book and is invited to be a key-note speaker at the major international congress. He speaks in a hall decorated...

A novel emerged out of separately published stories: A young Austrian man embarks on a journey to US in search of his family. He was able to find diary of his late grandfather, Leslav. The dairy brings to light his multiple identities. He was also a lover of a married woman and fathered two children by her. Upon the narrator's return to Austria all members of the Yankee Family are brought to life in a Halloween masquerade. Patricia, his cousin, attended the masquerade. Impressed by the show she challenges the young author, to go, with her on a trip to a foreign country. He accepts the...