Fiction - Satire

Author: Jasun EtherISBN-10: 1734833432ISBN-13: 9781734833430Publisher: SourceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2024Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.91d

"No book could have ever held such power. Except mine. No writer could have written such a story. Except me."A struggling writer obsessed by the romance novels he consumes wrestles with bad luck and mishap while trying to find the inspiration for his own...

Some grief cannot be spoken aloud. Some losses have no official name.When someone close to him dies suddenly, Andrew Irvine is left with something worse than heartbreak: a grief he cannot explain to anyone. Not to his wife. Not to his oldest friend. Not...

The King and Princess Snow Not-So-White by HAŞIM AKDENIZLI is a bold and thought-provoking collection of satirical short stories that examines society, morality, justice, human behavior, and the contradictions of modern life through dark humor, irony, and philosophical reflection.Blending realism with allegory, the stories...

A naïve dishwasher gets mistaken for the nephew of a mafia boss. After a mechanic scams him over a dead pilot light and he gets banned from every Chinese restaurant in town, Jimmy Viceno is down to his last eighty-seven dollars. Desperate for rent,...

This document was not approved by Human Resources. Human Resources doesn't know it exists. Let's keep it that way.For decades, the Feline Workplace Observation Committee has had agents embedded in every corner of the modern workplace-offices, warehouses, IT basements, home divisions, and the occasional...

On the Upper East Side, even the apocalypse has a dress code.Charmaine Starling is an Upper East Side housewife whose life is in crisis. She and her husband are in the middle of a messy divorce. He's dragging his feet on a settlement, and...

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot ... will be shot. --Mark Twain Divine Madness is a true tragicomedy, blending a humorous...

It was the summer of '95, long past the reign of Olympus. Fellow Greek Gods and brothers, Hermes and Apollo, had been looking forward to their bicentennial visit down to Los Angeles. Though since their father Zeus forbade any contact with mortals due to...

A definitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form"Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Salinger. All of Lethem's stories are enlivened by his wit and...

A love triangle with a screen.Marek thought his marriage was stable-until Ilona fell for a TV series. What starts as a shared evening ritual spirals into jealousy, obsession, and a comic unraveling of domestic life. Last Episode is a sharp, satirical novella about emotional...

Recommended for anyone who has ever wondered whether the inmates might run the asylum more wisely than the doctors.Author: K. E. AdamusISBN-10: 1912831104ISBN-13: 9781912831104Publisher: 161 DaysLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2025Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.18d

An almost has-been comic making his way to a celebrity roast, two young TV producers standing outside in the red-carpet rain, and three grumpy old men in the comedy trade weave their tales together on one fateful night.Author: Garrison SomersISBN-13: 9798985987850Publisher: Blotter Magazine, IncorporatedLanguage:...

A poetry collection of eighteen poems about life's absurdities and frustrations during lockdown. Wherever you live in this world, this is for you. Expect humour, a dollop of banter and ridiculous rants here and there. Amongst other delights, witness the strange antics of a...

A great deal has been done and progress has been made in race relations. However, remnants of historical injustices, usually unintended, do show up in standards applied to groups that have, historically, been marginalized. For example, they may be required to go far and...

Mark Goodenough's just made the biggest blunder in New Zealand sports broadcasting history. He's been fired from his job in radio and humiliated on air. His girlfriend has dumped him for his ex-best friend, and he's about to go viral in the worst possible...

Three great hunts. One great hunter. These are the best of Boo. In the wild world of elite bounty hunting, one name towers above the rest. Boo is a living legend. He is also a haunting enigma who strikes terror into his targets. A...

When Jake Hannity loses his wife to leukemia he realizes he's not as tough as he thought. Now it's too late to apologize for treating her badly and to tell her she's the only woman he could ever love. He feels guilty and no...

What if Donald Trump and his New Cabinet Were Trapped in Mar-a-Lago in 2017, Like You Were Trapped with COVID19?"In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of...

As war wages, a new generation of Bells, Coaltonstones and Goodwins are facing a harsh existence under Minese occupation. These are the last days of 2075. Karl Parks may soon be fitted into the Botman Regiment, which oversees the recycling of the debtors. Karl's...

For Jennifer Jones, the journey to find Mathew and to fulfill her true destiny has just begun, while the conspiracy of silence in Pitville, has no end in sight.Author: S. E. McKenzieISBN-10: 1772810584ISBN-13: 9781772810585Publisher: S. E. McKenzie ProductionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2019Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h...

The conspiracy of silence is nothing new in Pitville, but now the truth can no longer be hidden for it threatens Pitville's existence.Author: S. E. McKenzieISBN-10: 1772810134ISBN-13: 9781772810134Publisher: S. E. McKenzie ProductionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2016Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read the book -jAuthor: Jeffrey CohlmeyerISBN-10: 1733978208ISBN-13: 9781733978200Publisher: ClsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2019Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36d

Thirty-something New York City native Charlene Dickenson has never been good at letting things go, which is why she finds herself mildly stalking her ex-boyfriend after she spots him on her way to work. When this leads to her untimely death in a Christmas-related...

An acidic, satiric novel in the form of a travelogue of the American northwest, complete with annotations by an outraged local."I gazed out my window on the sea of dark clouds as my shaking seat jiggled the image into double vision; and I pictured...

Camilla is a satirical novel by Fanny Burney, following a young high-society woman as she navigates the complexities of family relationships and journeys towards self-discovery and love in the late-eighteenth century. Camilla Tyrold is a virtuous and intelligent young woman who struggles to make...

This classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmn's quest for the ultimate reality. His quest takes him from the extremes of indulgent sensuality to the rigors of asceticism...

A Tale of a Tub Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, arguably his most difficult satire and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody divided into sections each delving into the...

Grigsby is running the world's most dangerous game show. In Very Ferry, the third novella in the Grigsby Series, the stakes have never been higher. Grigsby has acquired the rights to launch a Japanese game show in America. Contestants are pushed to their absolute...

Meet Grigsby, the billionaire lunatic from Connecticut. If you combined Hunter S. Thompson, Bruce Wayne, and John Belushi you'd have Grigsby Ives Pemberton. He's a force of nature. A wealthy man with idle hands and the appetite of a neurotic child, Grigsby often falls...

World War III is minutes away. Two boyhood friends from Brooklyn supposedly have information to prevent it. One is now an American spy. The other is Russian.But some in the CIA view its agent as delusional. They even send him on a seemingly suicidal...

When Molly Malice fell down a rabbit-hole into a land of alternative facts, she thought it might be an exciting adventure. She found out instead that reality cannot just be wished away.Author: David E. ManuelISBN-10: 0999136682ISBN-13: 9780999136683Publisher: Persimmon Alley PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2020Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Vinnie Pinchey is an idol. Vinnie Pinchey is an ambition. Vinnie Pinchey is an attitude - of the most selfish, self-centered, spoiled society that has ever been. Vinnie Pinchey begins with a plan, a marketing scheme for a select few to make massive amounts...

Independence for a small emerging South American State is finally achieved. But the hoped-for dreams of its heroic leader, El Dragon, are shattered as his new nation collapses around him. With weaponry, crockery and even trousers in short supply our hero is forced to...

Just A Girl. Just A Guy. Just a Bench... A bench on a street, but this isn't the story of a bench. It's the story of a Girl. A Girl who didn't know how to girl. Endearingly nerdy, sharp, funny, and a bit of...

The Revolution will not be planned in the checkout line at Walmart or in the line to punch out on Friday afternoon, or at happy hour.The Revolution will be born at TWO A.M. in a group home in Minneapolis by young people who are...

Make your own culture war! Stuck in the city of Dead End, where ambitions go to wither, Rodney Bauman has resigned himself to a life of covering school board budgets and antique store openings. However, led by his own aspirations and the occasional religious...

HILARIOUS, RIDICULOUS and DEADLY SERIOUS Can humor help deflate a bloviating tyrant? Can satire shame sham news? Can comedy conquer the Complicits? When Donald J. "The Don" Trump crowns himself emperor, Jason Nickle's life becomes a dystopian nightmare. Donald's Dictum (the biggest dictum ever)...

Meet Rachel McFarland, a disgruntled superhero forced to ingest massive amounts of calories just to fuel her powers.When reality TV offers the only glimpse of escape, just how far will Rachel be willing to go to feed her ambitions?Horror and humor are blended perfectly...

April East is a scatological, biting, and outrageously funny satire of show business and celebrity, and the perils of sustaining a legacy. Its heroine, a legendary bombshell, makes her triumphant return to the limelight--but is she what she seems to be?Author: Joe StockdaleISBN-10: 0983882576ISBN-13:...

Reluctant corporate investigator Greta Greenberry picks her way through a minefield of body parts in tasty hot wing buckets, crooked executives, skeevy lawyers, chucklehead rednecks, oleaginous clergy, hapless workers, gun-toting federales and piles of dead bodies (not counting the chickens) to find herself hog-tied...

A cultural satire that lampoons practically everything that makes America great...the legal profession, religion, war, art, advanced medical technology, sex, pets...even The American Dream itself.Author: Richard BirdISBN-10: 0964647133ISBN-13: 9780964647138Publisher: Cerberus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2014Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.44d

Normally, fairytales and fables teach important lessons: * Build a house sturdy enough to fend off deplorable wolves. * Don't be tempted by candied false promises. * Beware of golden-haired thieves stealing your porridge. But this is not normal. Trump is not normal. We...

An initial encounter between a man and woman who meet on an online chat dating forum triggers mayhem, deception, racism and violence between its users.Author: Flyer God,Mansu EdwardsISBN-10: 0692813292ISBN-13: 9780692813294Publisher: Biscuits and Yogurt, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2016Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.12d

We're getting the band back together!" For Kyle Brightman, bipolar advertising-industry burnout, this is good news and bad news. Good, because he'll get to see his zombie-killing friends again, and be reunited with Cate, the zombie he loves (yeah, yeah, I know, read PARADISE...

As a popular Long Island beach park provides the setting for a legal and moral battle to save an Indian village, a homeless man suffering from amnesia grapples with his past while becoming acquainted with a new life. It is through his eyes that...

With a Queen of Heart embedded up a symbolic sleeve of the poorly written pages of thematic arts, uttered in the black hills of controversial words, echoing the need for a home and spiritual eyes, Mikey lost his way and walked the streets of...

Mongrel Gun Slingers is a vengeful critique of ENRON's CEO, Jeffrey Skilling, who gets wacked by The Mongrel Gun Slingers. The Mongrel Gun Slingers were hermaphrodites, that they were the Fifth and Sixth Horsemen left out of the Ultimate Apocalypse and forced to be...

One man cannot mobilize the spontaneous capacity of the masses. A vigorous fuck with a stiff upper lip in a sprawling mess, bubbling at a critical temperature in a pot of jig-a-boo soup, was the day Old One Eye went to the Musky Optometrist...

"American Cockroach is a satire of contemporary America inside a rock and roll novel. American Cockroach isn't about pest control; it's a guidebook to an insane world populated by all too human characters trapped in a rock and roll time travel trip through a...