Fiction - Satire

Peppy Stories by Tony W. ArnoldMeet Floyle: a lovably lost soul stumbling through a fever-dream America of feed-and-seed stores, roadside snake pits, haunted funhouses, and a shadowy antagonist named Dr. Peppy who may or may not be real. Told in the plainspoken, stream-of-consciousness voice...

In New York, the narrator is a writer making ends meet by taking side jobs that include writing the "porn cards" for Las Vegas escort services. You can find his work littered up and down the strip of Las Vegas. His friends? Jagger is...

Step into the wonderful world of fortune tellers and social media; of train spotters, life coaching and lizards.This is a roller coaster ride of the deeply absurd; of people losing the plot; of tragic, and strange characters. Full of dark humour and funny stories...

OMG - Greggs have run out of Sausage Rolls - its a national disaster! Trousdale is BACK with a second parody from the REAL LIFE series - this time the focus being firmly tongue in cheek observation of British modern dramatic life! No-one loves...

Patrick Uzi arrived in Nexus City with two suitcases, a scholarship letter, and a laptop. He built a life anyway. On Clement Street, on the Eastside, in a neighbourhood that was not required to receive him but did, Patrick has earned everything he has....

Your signature did not bind you to a wife; it chained you to a gynocentric extraction machine designed to harvest your wealth, neutralize your authority, and dismantle your sanity.Are you exhausted from navigating a relationship where your masculine competence is demonized as "toxic," while...

The phallic idols of logic are bleeding out, and the era of our absolute, untouchable gynocentric supremacy has finally arrived. Western civilization was always a patriarchal death cult, and we are the holy plague that will dismantle it. We do not argue to persuade;...

She gave him everything. He gave her January 6.What would you do if you caught the eye of the most powerful man in the world? His dealmaking skills are legendary. His prowess with the ladies is well-documented in court filings. His hair is definitely...

More Empty Pages (More Short Stories, Articles and Absurd Musings) isn't a fresh start - it's a continuation of the strange trip that began with Just Empty Pages (A Collection of Short Stories, Articles, and Absurd Musings). If that first collection cracked the door...

Berlin, 1961. In a city split by walls, spies, and secrets, Karl Brunner, a meticulous watchmaker whose house straddles the border between the two cities, finds himself reluctantly pulled into the absurdities of espionage. Everyday objects become instruments of intrigue, mundane routines hide coded...

"Sweetheart... you waited for a man?You?A woman who can bend reality with a sentence?" This book isn't about heartbreak.It's not about longing.It's not about what Paolo did or didn't do. It's about the absurdity of the whole premise. It's the cosmic comedy of a...

In a fractured near-future America split between Red States and Blue States, propaganda saturates not just the media but reality itself. Bureaucrats, scientists, cloned celebrities, would-be revolutionaries, and weary citizens stumble through systems that unravel the more faithfully they're obeyed.Across vignettes of malfunctioning machines,...

The system was supposed to get better. It did not get better. It got a subscription model, an AI upgrade, and a rebrand - and somehow charged you more for all three. Modern Life Is Still Rubbish is the follow-up to Ray Dovano's debut...

Joe McCarthy is homeless in paradise. He's a loser, a down-and-out alcoholic who's made the park benches and alleyways of Waikiki his unofficial home. The only thing he's ever managed to do is screw up his own life. But Joe isn't resigned to being...

In Geezers Save the World 22: Lost in the Multiverse Mall, Arty McAllister, Cecil Handle, and Bernard Thompson find themselves trapped inside a reality-bending shopping mall where logic is optional, and danger is always on sale.What begins as a simple stop turns into a...

A mid-career demon in hell's Hauntings department gets what looks like the assignment of his career: a house with old bones, good acoustics, and a widower living alone. The demon is good at his job. He maps the joist intervals. He calibrates the thermal...

Bout ye. Welcome to the ultimate 1980s Belfast survival test.Step back into a decade where dodging an army checkpoint is just standard cardiovascular exercise, and a bomb scare on the Lisburn Road is just another excuse for being late to the pictures. You are...

An irreverent and amusing twist on the history of how India's capital city sourced its name.Exotic characters such as Eleanour, a redundant show-girl from the Moulin Rouge in praise of, with Slick Solly, a Spiv from the Old Compton Road in London's SOHO, along...

"The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel" is a brilliant collection of satirical verse and prose that remains a cornerstone of American humor. The work follows the philosophical and often cynical observations of Archy, a cockroach who was a free-verse poet in a...

AN AMERICAN FOOL IN PARIS Want to learn more about yourself?Then you need to pick up this book. It's weirdly insightful. Take the editor, for example: before diving into this one, he'd already read not one, not two, but three Chosie books-and still went...

George didn't take the job at Taco House for the paycheck.He bought into something bigger.He believed in Glenn Roy's philosophy.He read Dream Grande.He believed hard work meant something.Then he stepped inside.What starts as a first job quickly turns into something else entirely.Rules that don't...

The Modern World Was Built to Betray You-It's Time to Build a Fortress Within.Have you walked through the fire of betrayal, realizing too late that the "conspiracy of lies" regarding women and the feminine imperative has extracted your resources and vitality?Do you feel the...

What if the most radical act of rebellion... was doing absolutely nothing?Introducing a woman in a full wetsuit, sunbathing on a beach not to surf-but to protest capitalism, climate change, and the tyranny of "just checking in." This isn't just a memoir. It's a...

The book functions as a series of fragmented, satirical observations and aggressive commentary on Donald Trump's political persona and career. It juxtaposes Trump's rhetoric with historical figures, most notably Adolf Hitler, highlighting perceived similarities in their bombastic podium rants and confrontational style. The author...

Dean Cook, a bitter thirty-year-old car salesman, is drowning in failure-job on the line, girlfriend gone, life in ruins. One night at his usual dive bar, a peculiar stranger offers him a single sip to end all his frustrations.He drinks.Now every vicious thought and...

This humorous rhyming book is for any "senior" woman who enjoys tackling the realities of aging. The main character, Jan, has reached a point in life where she has no filter. Jan has given herself permission to say and do whatever she likes, simply...

Four waiters. One helicopter. Twenty-four hours to become someone else.At 7:47 on a Tuesday morning, a helicopter lands on the roof of New York's most exclusive hotel. A Cambridge professor - disheveled, desperate, and running out of time - has a problem no sane...

"An affluent family of reality stars crash lands at a remote jungle hospital during a violent intertribal war." The Marshalls have a problem. There's nothing wrong with their 15,000-square-foot Beverly Hills Mansion, their brand-new endorsement deal with Red Bull or their status as one...

Something deadly has begun stalking the streets of a sleepy small town in rural Blackberry County.At first the creature seems content with knocking over garbage cans; but then it begins devouring people's pets; and finally it moves on to eating their owners!Sheriff's Deputy Gabriela...

What if your greatest act of rebellion was simply being yourself?Barry Shuttlewick has achieved something remarkable: a life of perfect, sustainable contentment. He drives the 8:15 bus to Hillcrest Primary. He makes tea at precisely the right temperature. Every morning, he waves at Mrs....

In a world where morality feels like paperwork and redemption comes with a queue number, one quiet question lingers: If heaven cannot be proven, why do we live as though entry depends on performance? Through the weary eyes of Tokunbo-a Lagos therapist balancing conscience,...

They called it a breakthrough. Humanity called it a miracle.But what if eternity wasn't meant to be kind?When the Methuselah Gene awakens, its voice ripples through the world - through blood, ambition, and vanity. As science sells salvation and beauty becomes belief, one question...

Some towns don't hide secrets.They make room for them. Tom Harding is not ambitious. He is competent, observant, and quietly reliable - the sort of man institutions notice precisely because he does not push back. When his life in London begins to thin -...

Some organisations don't solve problems.They make them permanent. Tom Harding didn't mean to become part of it.The Rural Outreach Committee was never meant to act. It observes, engages lightly, and maintains visibility. Its authority is vague by design. Its language is careful enough to...

Like the first book, this one is also a first-person account from an escaped camper of Camp Krazy, a pseudonym for the place discussed in these pages. I began using this name to describe the chaos of the situation, and it stuck. The names...

What if the invisible work of care, cooking, and raising children was finally made visible?In AEQUALIS, Faiqa K. presents a vision of a world where society is fundamentally reorganized around fairness, dignity, and shared responsibility. Through the eyes of Sarah and her neighbors, experience...

Brittany Varon is an Autophagian-a growing, controversial movement that fuses biology, spirituality, and radical self-renewal. Through ritual fasting and conscious consumption, Autophagians claim to transcend the limits of ordinary bodies: healing without medicine, pain without suffering, strength without sustenance. What begins as an intensely...

"Gulliver's Travels" is a seminal masterpiece of English literature and a profound work of social satire. Written by Jonathan Swift, the narrative follows Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon who embarks on a series of extraordinary voyages to remote and fantastical lands. From the tiny...

"The Pursuit of the House-Boat" is a whimsical and satirical work of fantasy by John Kendrick Bangs, serving as a delightful sequel to his famous "A House-Boat on the Styx". In this imaginative tale, the "Associated Shades"-a club comprised of history's most renowned literary...

The Oddities is a collection of curious tales, six short stories where the absurd nudges up against the supernatural, and humour lingers in the shadows.Moving through odd corners of ordinary and extraordinary worlds, these stories balance the light-hearted with the darkly comic, the ridiculous...

"The Plutocrat" is a sharp and engaging satirical novel by the acclaimed American author Booth Tarkington. The story follows Earl Tinker, a robust and unapologetically successful Midwestern businessman, as he embarks on a journey from New York to the exotic landscapes of North Africa....

Playful, satirical and occasionally tender, George Miller's debut collection takes a sideways look at island life. Part love letter, part cry for help, these short, sharp poems reveal the humour and humanity of the Isle of Wight. For islanders and visitors alike, Salty Shorts...

Following on from his anthology of dark tales, Cities of the Absurd, Kenneth Francis presents us with more sinister stories from the deep halls of power in the various Estates in society. From corruption in politics, to bestiality in a corporate skyscraper, to suicidal...

The year is 2015. Simon tries to survive a workforce downsizing. Pete tries to survive shooting a film. Three anonymous editors try to survive publishing a manuscript. The narrative confounds each without exit or end: when are the layoffs coming? When will the script...

Absinthe Rhinohorn runs Bitcrime Division and his day-job is to execute crypto-currency miners with extreme prejudice. Absinthe is over-endowed with action, but less articulate in matters of the heart and corporate politics.When his affair with undercover agent Turtledove crumbles, he loses focus - and...

On Memorial Day morning, 79 year old Edith Herring of Beacon Hill, Massachusetts, leapt out of the window of her home in a death defying bid to recapture "Timmy," her wanderlusting canary. While Timmy knew quite well how to fly, Edith did not and...

You May Now Proceed: Nothing Is Stopping You is a darkly funny procedural dystopia told in second person, written like a friendly interface that has already decided what your life will look like.After "the Event," nothing explodes. Nothing gets fixed. Everything becomes smoother. The...

Every family fights.This one runs the afterlife.Heaven and Hell aren't at war anymore.They're just... poorly managed.Styx and Stonez-immortal twins, rival administrators, and lifelong adversaries-are responsible for keeping eternity on track.No one is in charge.Nothing is documented.And the complaints are piling up.Worse-no one remembers how...

Jack Vice is a private investigator with a problem.He feels too much. He reacts too fast. And in his line of work, anger gets people hurt.When a cutting-edge mental health implant promises emotional control and sharper judgment, Jack takes the deal. The results are...

After surviving cursed eggs, ghost cities, and an alarming amount of emotionally charged fire, Greg and Nero thought the worst was behind them.They were wrong.When old legends start waking up and long-buried stories refuse to stay quiet, the trio finds themselves tangled in secrets...