The Divided Stories of America: The Blue Sea by J. C. Finnegan (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

What if the United States of America were no longer united? The Blue Sea is the second book in The Divided Stories of America, a series that offers a satirical glimpse of a fractured country through a collection of tall tales and colorful characters. The USA is dead. In its wake lie four autonomous territories: the Southeast, the Pacific, the Frontier, and the Northeast. The first of these is the region where freedom reigns alongside God. It's the place brothers Andy and Caleb Calloway call home. In the aftermath of the National Divorce, a schizophrenic named Andy is mired in a swamp, while his brother Caleb is living a charmed life with a gorgeous wife and an ocean vista. After the siblings meet up on Independence Day, they set sail on a journey that takes them through social media's virtual world and Florida's flesh and bones reality. As Caleb shepherds Andy through a ninety-day epic body transformation, past trauma rises to the surface. Caleb must examine his life as a social media influencer, his relationship with his brother, and the consequences of unalienable freedom. Voyage to The Divided Stories of America: The Blue Sea today.

Genre: Humor & Satire

Fracked, Part One: The Hunter by Maureen Driscoll (6 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Author's Note: FRACKED was originally published on Kindle's Vella platform for serialized storytelling. This novel contains episodes one through thirty of the FRACKED Vella saga. It is a serialized novel and each of the first three books ends on a cliffhanger -- similar to seasons of a TV show -- until the story concludes in the fourth and final book. If you don't like cliffhangers, you will not like these books. Fracking has opened up a portal to hell in the California desert in this dramedy saga of good versus evil. And while there are actual demons wreaking havoc on the nearby area, there are also demons of a metaphorical kind. Racism, the war in Vietnam, homophobia and the economics of growing older but poorer are all featured in this series by a former writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. In this first installment, 52-year-old Stephanie Matthews inherits a house in an over-55 community in the California desert, after the sudden death of her aunt. As demons emerge from a nearby fracking site, Stephanie teams up with two former Black Panthers, a Vietnam Vet and a retired teacher to stop them. Allies and enemies are unveiled as the demons begin their quest to destroy humanity. But as events from the past come back to haunt Stephanie's friends, it becomes clear that sometimes the demons which are hardest to kill are the ones in all of us. FRACKED is a comedy/drama which touches on the battle of good versus evil and the many shades of grey in-between.

Genre: Humor & Satire

Nora's New Christmas by Richard Ridpath (3 Reviews)    Price verified 20 minutes ago

Nora desperately wanted to tell her disagreeable and overbearing coworker to go scrooge himself. But it was close to Christmas and she wanted to take the professional high road for as long as she could. However the end of that road was coming up quick, very quick. Nora Flynn is a fifty-two year old human resources manager at a large national office supply company. She had lost her husband Bobby to a heart defect five years ago. Her married daughter Amanda had moved to California the previous June because her husband had started a new job. Nora was determined to not indulge in self pity. Nora wasn't shy in expressing her dismay for people who whine and complain. She decided to make changes this Christmas. The first real changes since she lost Bobby. This Christmas would be new. This Christmas would be Nora's new Christmas. However, she never anticipated the impossible events that were headed her way for this Christmas season, making this Christmas more new than she could have ever have dreamed. ~ Merry Christmas to anyone who is reading this. Think back to your Christmas past and look forward to your Christmas now and in the time to come. It's a new Christmas for everyone. Especially you.

Genre: Humor & Satire

Cuckoo's Nest: Volume Two in 'The Cuckoo' series (The Comedies) by K. L. Smith (400 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Volume two in 'The Cuckoo' series. Sarah Pemberton's back, raising hell and wreaking havoc. Despite desperately trying to be the demure lady of the manor, things don't quite go to plan. Armed with her ever faithful troop, they have to batten down the hatches and keep the intruders from the gate. What can you do when people try to break you? Don't take things lying down! Restoring a rundown hotel is stressful enough, having your arch enemy move in next door is a recipe for disaster. Add to the mix the discovery of a secret locked door that holds its own puzzles and mysteries, and you get a whole shed load of fun! If you have a wicked sense of humour, this is the book for you. Sequel to 'Flight of the Cuckoo'.

Genre: Humor & Satire

ReejecttIIon - a number two by Daniel Clausen (23 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

By reading ReejecttIIon, it's likely you'll discover: colorful short stories, funny flash fiction, hilarious cartoons, riveting reviews, wondrous anagrams and other assorted skits and titbits of under-achieving literary genius. If you're lucky, you might come across sci-fi tales about the privatization of words, horror stories about hair and ruminations on indie writing. It's also possible that you'll find commentary on the hazards of greedy literary agents and stories about washed up movie directors who receive financial backing from space aliens. Publisher's Meekly calls it: "a thought-provoking fable about technological hubris and the hazards of bioengineering." (*This may or may not be referring to Jurassic Park and not ReejecttIIon.) Reader's Indigestion says: "this book quietly stands as one of the most powerful statements of the Civil Rights movement." (*This may or may not actually refer to To Kill a Mockingbird and not ReejecttIIon.) But why not read this seriously comical scattergun book and see what you can discover about ReejecttIIon for yourself?

Genre: Humor & Satire

The Complete Guide to Being Evil by Laura Stephenson (13 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Youth, magic, and a luxurious Manhattan apartment, Kalara has it all. She's a classic evoker--hurling fire, ice, and electricity is her specialty. As her father always said, the classics are important. Meet Whitcomb, a powerful necromancer who doesn't want anyone discovering he's selling the souls of the dead who go through his funeral home. Kalara finds out he's also a mage, and lets him know they have that in common in an endeavor to network. His response is an attempt to teleport her into the Hudson River, and it almost works. Scared for her life, she elicits the help of a devil. Enter Evander, son of a devil. He's fresh from failing his final diablerie test, and making a deal with a mortal would save him from disgrace. He has Kalara sign an overly fair contract: in return for borrowing his power for five days, she has to give him a heart from one of his enemies so he can eat it and grow stronger. If she fails to deliver the heart, he eats Kalara's instead.

Genre: Humor & Satire