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Welcome to Anywhere, a world very different, yet all too similar, to your own. "Brilliant comic technique, and a glorious sense of moral outrage at the current mess in which our country seems mired, combine here to make a unique reading experience. Often laugh-out-loud funny, the real-life characters behind these innocuous fairy tales and fables hit you by surprise, a series of sharp rocks hidden in those snowballs. Amazingly, with all the faux-naievete and children's book elements gleefully displayed here, the writing never becomes twee or condescending. I don't know where this writer's been all his life, but I intend to catch up with him, and keep an eye on where he's headed next...Bravo, Mr. Hennerly! Stay angry, and keep your books coming!" VINE VOICE 30 tales of magic, mystery and horror.... A horrible secret is revealed when a fairy's 'gift' shows the Perfect Parents to be anything but perfect. A man of pure intention realizes that only Love has true value, the rest ain't worth a damn. A Troll inflicts a bloody revenge on a family of Bankers. A uniquely corrupt politician bursts into flames. The Souls of a Mother and her Son dance across a broad, bright blue sky with a complexity as intense and beautiful as the irresistible, flawless logic of a Mathematical Equation or the eye-catching wonder of a Murmuration Of Starlings. An abiding evil is unleashed against humanity after the Devil has a bright idea. A cry of "You have billions. We are billions" rings throughout the land as The Ordinary Folk rise up against The Greedy One Percent. Nora-Lee lives a life of quiet desperation, always in the shade of her more beautiful and adored sister, but is determined to be free, to be the person she was always meant to be - even if that means murder. A lonely, bullied teenage boy mysteriously sprouts a huge pair of Angel's wings. A beautiful, compassionate, campaigning Princess becomes beloved of the people and meets a tragic, and suspicious, end. A dignified and proud old lady, haunted by the deafening silence of her life, embarks upon a final, incredible journey. A man is eaten by his sofa and we learn of the incredible, secret history of Wilhelmina the Dachshund. And...12 more incredible Tales! Did you know that real Trolls have horns, can run as fast as cheetahs and have a deep and abiding hatred of Bankers? Did you know that you began your existence as a random handful of atoms, coalescing together after journeying across the vastness of the Universe and when God saw you he was so moved by your beauty that he tore a piece off himself and placed it inside you? Did you know that as you read this the Blind Old Weaver Of Fate is Clumsily Spinning Together the course of your life - She is random, malicious, capricious, bountiful. Did you know that a Fairy lives for exactly 897 years and 13 days, that they steal human children because they can’t have their own and when they cry, their tears turn into diamonds? Did you know that where ever you walk, the Devil and his Special Children walk with you and that one day your Soul will Break The Chains Of Earthly Existence to make one last, Incandescent Journey across a Broad, Bright Blue Sky and the Tale That Was Your Life will slowly fade away, to be lost forever in the dense Fog Of Forgotten Stories?

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