Publisher's Synopsis
Love is a chemical reaction in the human brain, a firing of neurons to indicate another member of the species might provide viable offspring. It's a biological reflex, like hunger or gassiness or getting whacked in the knee by a tiny hammer, neurological sorcery designed by evolution to perpetuate a species so mired in abstraction it lost sight of reality. Love is drunkenness, really, a self-inflicted intoxication that leads to some truly goofy decisions.
But then so do werewolves, bad poetry, black holes and antimatter. Life's full of unfortunateness, it seems. So, brought to you by Dudley Wordsworth - famously NOT the author of any New York Times Bestsellers - are ten stories of love and laughs, of humor and horror, of sci-fi and just-fi, of LOVE... and Other Unfortunate Things. Contains the Short Stories:"The Things We're All Too Young to Know"
The embodiment of Good marches on the final battlefield of Armageddon to face the embodiment of Evil, only to discover... they used to date! "Meat-Cute"
A young vegan goes to a dinner date at her new boyfriend's house, only to learn a shocking secret that puts their whole relationship in jeopardy. Content Warning: This one gets weird. "Butterflies"
Trapped in a world on monsters, a man must navigate through storms and time to stop a butterfly from flapping its wings. "An Unfortunate Attempt at Poetry"
A poem about werewolves. "King Rex"
In a fairytale land of wizards and princesses and plagues and death, King Rex reigns with an iron fist; and only one thing can threaten him: his daughter's desire to wed. "How Daddy Slew the Gorloch"
Billy's dad is the most powerful dad in all of Dad-dom. So why is he struggling so much against something called a 'Gorloch?' "An Unfortunater Attempt at Poetry"
A poem NOT about werewolves. "A Matter of Perspective"
A day in the life of four college students with wildly different outlooks on everything. "The Unfortunest Attempt at Poetry"
Sometimes, you just gotta vent. "How to Destroy the Universe in Seven Business Days or Less"
Fed up with his noisy neighbors, a man reaches the only sane solution possible: destroy the universe.
