This is the story of three generations of the Barker family, in the backwoods of East Texas. It is a story of their sins and retributions, good and evil, and horror in which they lived and died in the isolation of those ever daunting woods.

Cornelius is the story of one man's self realization. Under the guise of sanity versus insanity, and reality versus fantasy, Cornelius finds out who he really is and what will make him happy. Cornelius Kopernik has problems. He has an eating disorder that has made him incredibly obese, and he has a problem with alcohol. Then one night, he unwittingly stumbles into an insane world. that he cannot seem to get out of. Based loosely on the author's own experiences, Cornelius goes from a studio pianist, to the stage that may or may not be real. Lost in a world that seems insane, he fights for his sanity, from his tiny apartment in Seattle, on the Interstate, to a plush rehabilitation facility on Barinbridge Island. All of which may be real or may be unreal.