While truth may be stranger than fiction, a fictoid is definitely funnier than a factoid, says the author of an hysterical new book.
What exactly is a fictoid? A fictoid is a bit of fictional history making a statement or telling a story in one sentence.
“A typical fictoid tells who did what, when and where,” says Bill Dutcher, author of “Fictoids: Short Fiction…Very Short” (Dutcher & Company, $12). Neither historically accurate nor politically correct, the book takes a random walk through cultural history from 1220 B.C. to 2004.
Readers can learn who invented self-storage and who invented both the periodic table and the occasional chair; why Henry the Ninth couldn’t get a date; who founded General Eclectic; who recorded “You were always there for me…but I was always here”; who told his bankers “You can call my loan, but it won’t come”; who opened a high-priced helium bar, believed to be New York’s first Squeak Easy; and whose unauthorized autobiography sold more than one million copies.
The book introduces such colorful characters as Sleeping Beauty’s sister...
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