The Shore Mysteries
The Case of the Missing Mythic Beauty
IT was a perfect day for gathering seashells at the beach, and the sounds welling up from deep within the shells sang of mermaids who’d rather surrender their upper half of humanity than pull taffy at fudge shops. No one was surprised when a few sensitive young men took the songs to heart and swam out beyond the breakers.
Not all came back intact! At the funeral for one, only the upper portion of his body was displayed in the casket, and days later he mysteriously rose from the grave under a moonless night. Witnessed by a pack of grave robbers, they told the story to a muckraker who sold it to a supermarket tabloid and moved to Kentucky.
He opened a theme park for veterinarians and gave family discounts to those who brought plastic replicas of retroviruses to the entrance gate. One stormy night, lightening struck and all things iconic became real. Snakes the size of roller coasters, turtles as big as Ferris wheels, and lizards whose tails were longer than the tunnel of love declared that the reign of the dinosaur had returned.
On Columbus Day, a team of trauma experts was sent to the site to counsel the giant beasts about the terrors of the postmodern era, but one mention of the rise in fudge prices and the team was eaten alive. You could hear the sounds of their bones snapping and their cries welling up from the sewers everywhere. It wasn’t until a few sensitive young men showed up with taffy that calm was restored.
Discovering that a sweet tooth had mysteriously risen up from the grave of the deep past and overwhelmed them, the ancient reptiles came to their senses and snuggled back up into the history books. But not without a nod to a moonless night down the shore when, not too long ago, even the grave robbers felt unsafe.
Finally Inspector Park was called in and he examined the retroviruses teeming in the fish wrap thrown into the trash. They told of a stormy night, when a young man was fusing a mermaid’s upper half of humanity to his lower, lightening struck and all things real became iconic. It surprised no one when the mythic beauty climbed up out of the grave upside down on her hands and went out across the beach and down into the sea’s deep dark tunnel of love.
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Strange happenings down at the shore strangely told
| SELECTED WORKS |
| Literary Nonsense The Shore Mysteries Strange tales strangely told in concise twists and turns with improbable events and resolved through odd happenings and by slippery detectives who can’t wait to get back to the beach. Stoleniferous Xavier y Zungie steals literary phrases and lifts foggy abstractions from elegant magazines combining both with his own sense of the absurd to confront the nonsense we experience every day. Satire The Book Of Godom & Somorrah The history and antics of the gods and goddesses who dwell on Thorn Prick Peak and how they created the universe and provided guidance for the people on the earth through the forecasting Icons found in The Orbitology. Fiction A Great Place To Die “A spell-binding tour de force of diabolical dialogue” -Barry Gifford “In vino verbosity, as they say,” wisecracks one of Sean Connolly’s main characters in this slightly surreal, darkly comic novel about the search for constancy in a very inconstant world. Charles and Garth are downing drinks at the Black Dog Inn, but, in a dramatic technique reminiscent of the classic film My Dinner with Andre, their dialogue transports us far beyond those walls through the adventures of rogues and rapscallions in such far-flung locales as Baltimore, New York, Key West, and ultimately Cambridge, Massachusetts. Audio Cartoons “One of Those Days” A series of zany radio cartoons, each episode running about two minutes, staring a nameless dog down by the fireplug, his master Joey The First, his wife, Delicatessen Jill, her companion JoJo The Chicken, and all their neighbors who love to party out on the streets. QUICK LINKS Authors Guild Advocates for published authors since 1912 Authors Guild Directory A compendium of member websites |
