About Fate’s Janitors

What happens when a famed, but fanatical psychologist secretly enlists a group of self-absorbed psychotherapists in an audacious revolt against the health care system?  

Fate’s Janitors  takes the reader inside the mental health and addiction industry; where talk, noisy breath exhaled, is marketed as a precious healing salve. 

A perennial student must complete a counseling internship at an outpatient mental health clinic. His supervisor, a recovering addict, and former outlaw biker, is less than thrilled about having an intern tagging along. The clinic is treated like an ignored appendage to the medical center, which in turn has been taken over by a giant corporation.  The renowned psychologist, Dr Ahern, is appointed director, but when the great man at last makes an appearance, he delivers outlandish orders to the staff and bribes them to lie to insurance companies, deceive regulators, and bamboozle auditors.A new chapter is posted weekly.  

How do I read Fate’s Janitors ?  

Fate’s Janitors will be published in full on line, chapter by chapter over a period of time as a serialized web novel. Click on the subscribe button to the right so that you get new chapters as they are published.  

You you don’t like reading novels on line, or if you can’t wait for the next chapter, you can purchase the book from Amazon.com.

Early Reviews of Fate’s Janitors

 “The writing in the first 2 chapters is solid.  It’ll be interesting to see how long it is before the intern becomes a patient.” Linda Schoales, Web Fiction Guide

 “What a splendid description of life in the health care field. This is a refreshing look into the role of psychiatric care in a big medical center. I enjoyed the writing style and am looking forward to reading the next chapter.” Bob Israel

“Got my attention right away. LOL… Loved the approach to the step-father and the barbershop. Kathleen Richardson

“This one did make me smile, almost giggle.” Pamela Stiles

“Great story, I really love it.” Susie Watkins

“The analogy of sea and shore was a great way of illustrating the “ever changing mind” of people in treatment …” Sandy

Acknowledgements  

I want to thank my wife, Karen Rosenbloom, for putting up with both my need for privacy and feedback as I wrote Fate’s Janitors. Thank you, too, my other beta readers, the Night Writers: Carlos Bahr, Janice Carello, Barb Grosh, Bob Hesselberth, David Jolkovski, Dolly Malik, Martha Price, Eric Scoles, Sally Steinmiller, Henry Williams, and Byron Wilmot.  

I also want to thank all those who lent me their stories over the years in my psychotherapy practice. You will find none of them in Fate’s Janitors because the book is a work of fiction. I am also grateful to my employer for giving me a place to work, but the dysfunctional medical center of Fate’s Janitors is a fictional setting. To my colleagues in the psychotherapy field, thanks for your support, but you are also not in this book, for the characters come out of my own twisted imagination. That is not to say that they are not real.