The Sire Saga

Written by Jonathan Leusden with Claude

The Sire Saga is a work of fiction and exaggerated humor. Names, businesses, places and events have been changed or invented, and nothing here should be read as a factual account of any real person or company.

Henry is a five-pound Bernedoodle puppy with a gold bell on his collar. He arrives in a high-floor apartment under a guardian contract, and within a few weeks the apartment is also the headquarters of a business plan that nobody applied for.

The Sire Saga is documentary comedy. The narrator is formal and never notices that anything is funny. The people are intelligent, busy and polite, and they are all doing the math. The math is the problem.

The chapters

The first chapter is on the way.

How this was made

I wrote it with Claude, using the same method as the Barth Saga: a project archive holds what has happened, a style guide holds the voice, and Claude drafts against both, one chapter at a time. I cut a lot. Names, businesses and places were changed, and most of what happens was invented or pushed well past what happened. The bell, the narrator’s straight face and the closing line are the parts I would not let it change.

If you want a setup like this for your own writing project, that is part of what I do through Takeoff Consulting. More comedy: The Barth Saga and Claude Comedy by Jonathan Leusden.