Bell began writing in 2004 during a difficult time in his life, creating characters worse off than he was. What began as therapy later became a decade of a humorous monthly column, titled Modern Fables, for a bar magazine with a strict word limit. Each of the over ninety stories is about a page long, dry, surreal, and slightly off-balance. The book packs in Easter egg trivia, with obscure interconnections between stories. It is, in a sense, autobiographical, and leans into anti-humor without warning.
The action unfolds in the Mystee Forest, where a purple amulet carries alien power, a drunk penguin dumps his human girlfriend, a clown longs to be a rabbit, and a dad saves his son from a tiger shark, to name a few. The author even joins in with first-person adventures involving lasers, kitchen magnets, and aluminum foil.
Step into a world where life seemed good, then not so good. One reviewer called it "shockingly amazing." The ebook is the updated version, and a portion of the proceeds go to cancer research.
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