Political Satire

More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity. This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the future? Will it devolve into a Russian style oligarchy, or will we rise to the challenge and use our hearts, our minds and our votes to return to a rational democracy, of, by, and for the people. No one knows for sure. But these top-tier talented authors from around the world, from Philip Brian Hall to ...

Back of the Book Blurb In Cedric III, Part 2: Vidalia Haggis and Other Universal Truths, Southern chaos reaches its mythic apex. Across five stories, Cedric Fitzhugh—equal parts reluctant hero, bourbon strategist, and curator of disaster—navigates the absurd rituals of Caterwaul County, Jabberwocky Junction, and Hot Coffee, Mississippi, where tradition isn’t just a pastime—it’s a full-contact sport. From birthday revelry turned municipal meltdown to a raccoon-fueled etiquette war, a psychoactive garden party, and a cotillion tribunal over lost fig preserves, Cedric must outwit ...

In a manifesto that renders all previous attempts at political satire obsolete, The Chapo Guide to Revolution shows you that you don’t have to side with either the pear-shaped vampires of the right or the craven, lanyard-wearing wonks of contemporary liberalism. These self-described “assholes from the Internet” offer a fully ironic ideology for all who feel politically hopeless and prefer broadsides and tirades to reasoned debate.

Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to his beloved “girls” on the outskirts of the desolate North African village of Nawa. He wakes one morning to find that something has attacked one of his beehives, brutally killing every inhabitant. Heartbroken, he soon learns that a mysterious swarm of vicious hornets committed the mass murder - but where did they come from, and how can he stop them? If he is going to unravel this mystery and save his bees from annihilation, Sidi must venture out into the village and then brave the big city and beyond in search of answers.

First There Was the CSC One dreary Monday morning I arrived at work and found a Dilbert cartoon clipped from that morning’s paper and taped to my office door. As I stood and read it, I saw the handwritten abbreviation “CSC” and a roughly drawn rain cloud added to the third frame of the cartoon. I quickly read the captions, and chuckling at the humor, I knew immediately who had left the comic on my door. It was my friend and colleague Tom Frank. I also knew both what the CSC inscription meant and why he had made the connection with the cartoon. It was as though Scott Adams had been in ...

The Charon/McIntosh clan is your typical dysfunctional family. They also happen to be four of the world’s best assassins. In this installment, high-maintenance daughter Olivia has reluctantly agreed to spend one month training with the most feared assassin of the last one thousand years, Master Rōshi Dorje. Chaffing under Rōshi’s supervision she jumps at the chance to join a security team to protect a member of a secret organization known as the High Council.

 Olivia soon discovers, instead of being part of primary security detail, her job will be babysitting the rebellious ...

First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America - an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naiveté of their own time in a work that endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.

Bonk and his mate Hedz are an ordinary caveman and cavewoman struggling with the everyday existence that comes when one's place in the food chain isn't all that clear. If creating fire, dodging volcano eruptions and outrunning saber tooth tigers isn’t stressing enough, their daily survival is interrupted when a strange little caveman named Lob arrives in the village. Lob convinces their leader, Chief Wug, that a neighboring tribe is amassing weapons of mass destruction in preparation for an assault on their village. As Lob gains more influence on their chief, the tiny community of ...

Helen is one of the best minds of her generation. A graduate student on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity and thereby save the planet, Helen finds herself torn when her advisor's sex scandal is exposed. Should she give up on her work and her brilliant advisor? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university off the Connecticut coast, founded by a provocateur billionaire, that hosts the academics that other schools have thrown out? At the Institute, the disgraced and deplorable operate at the top of their fields with impunity and, indeed, every comfort.

The novel begins in the decade of 1990s. The world had changed overnight. The wall of Berlin had vanished, and the great and mighty Soviet Union was vanishing. But in India, the report of the Mandal Commission was creating new frontiers. Meanwhile Advani started his rathyatra.

Cassandra Devine, a young Washington spin doctor and blogger, suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. This proposal catches on with citizens outraged about Social Security debt and a senator seeking the youth vote for his presidential bid. With the help of Washington's greatest PR strategist, Cassandra and the senator try to ride the issue of euthanasia to the White House.

As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Here is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction. He favors unambiguous political statements -- such as torching Jet-Skis or blowing up banks -- that leave his human targets shaken but re-educated.

Julesville comes down with a case of civic duty! Thanks to a promise by Big Julie to leave office when the Halfling Invasion was repelled, folks are grumbling. Mainly because, well, the halfling invasion was repelled so long ago, it’s no longer even capitalized. See? To make matters worse, the newly arrived Magnus Opus von Magnus is stoking the fires of discontent as he vies for the job of Mayor. Does he have nefarious intentions for the town? Is he backed by powerful forces working in the shadows? Of course he does- have you not read the other books in the series?? To try and stop Magnus...

“Just sit tight, shut up and let me work my magic. And, for heaven’s sake, try to look empowered.” Trent Argent, community troubleshooter, has been parachuted into an isolated village identified as a problem area. It’s his job to tell the Ramstead locals to eat less sugar and stop getting their teenagers pregnant. He’s done this countless times before, but how did he end up so rich? The council is determined. It’s brought together public agencies in partnership, and not just to have someone else to point at when things go wrong. The villagers, led by Gerald Thompson of the ...

Cory Logan retired from boxing after winning millions of dollars, but he never won a world title. When he dies, all he'll have is a headstone that no one will visit. To live in infamy, he wants a sports facility named after him. The only thing that stands in his way is the mayor of Hilton Head, who insists it be named after an African American. Yvette Tyson is frustrated since she divorced her cheating husband. She struggles with her new life, embarrassed by her past and unable to gain the respect she once had. Does she really have to spend the rest of her life working the graveyard shift ...

Ever wondered what eternity is like? Buy the Heaven Pill for $39.99 and see the sights! Hug deceased loved ones. Guarantee a spot in Heaven. Meet St. Peter! Talk to Jesus, and see God. What could go wrong? Find out in this hilarious piece of political satire as it reveals the truth about our nation's political divide, the DNC, Russiagate, President Trump's involvement, and the fallout from the Heaven Pill.

Drumpf & Sons: Capitol Gains A Novel of Power, Profit, and the Privatization of a Presidency In the United Republic of Columbia, democracy didn’t die — it got a rebrand. When billionaire-turned-President Ron Drumpf reclaims the Ivory House, he brings his children, his company, and his golden furniture with him. What follows is a blisteringly absurd and disturbingly plausible descent into dynastic rule, where national assets are auctioned to shell companies, foreign autocrats are rewarded with government contracts, and loyalty to the ruling family is rewarded with pardons — or profit. ...

She was 19 when the obsession began. With Trump. With guns. With power. In Trump’s Mouthpiece: The Making of a Press Secretary (Volume One), Karoline Leavitt’s hunger isn’t just political—it’s biblical, erotic, and all-consuming. From the moment she first heard his voice, she knew Donald J. Trump wasn’t just a president. He was Him. Her God. Her purpose. Her only way to matter in a world that worships dominance and punishes devotion. As America burns through presidencies and collapses under scandal, Karoline claws her way to His side—offering loyalty, silence, sex, and ...

This little yellow book about nothing reveals many secrets and was inspired by an imaginary political story that was said to have taken place in a mythical land called the Great White North not so long ago. The story in this novella is set in a lush green valley of the North Okanagan lands, in a barn on a large farm. In this tale, a coalition government of rogue coyotes plagued with ethics violations, scandals, fiscal malfeasance, and foolishness slowly comes to an end after a long reign of tyranny. The political landscape and power dynamics begins to shift as illiberal timber wolves move ...