I’m really excited about my latest novel, Wally and the Anti-Fascist Fairy. It’s a political satire in the tradition of Animal Farm. While no real names are used, there’s no prize for guessing who the US President is.
It’s about high school senior Wally, and his friends Freddie and Kitty, who like to dress up as various animals and mythical creatures. It’s all just for fun, but the fun comes to an end when jocks from the football team, who like to think of themselves as real men, start pushing the fairies around.
Silence is Consent.
Wally and his Fairy friends decide they’ve had enough, and take to the streets in protest. Their ‘No Bullies’ protest days goes viral and spreads across the country, and it’s not long before it comes to the attention of the thin-skinned Reginald Stultus Jr., President of the hottest country in the world. Convinced the protests are about him, his orange face turns brighter hues of tangerine as he watches the protesting fairies and hippos dancing in the streets.
His ever-accommodating advisors suggest that any criticism of the great man must be an act of terrorism, and so the President designates hippos, fairies, and frogs – or anyone dressed like one – as Antifa and a domestic terrorist threat.
The Gestapo arm of Homeland Insecurity, the National Interspecies Costume Enforcement (NICE) agency, starts rounding up and incarcerating anyone dressed like a hippo, fairy or frog. But they can’t build the NICE concentration camps fast enough, so a dim-witted President comes up with another great policy idea: detain the protesters in zoos. They’re dressed as animals after all, so put them in the zoo where animals belong.
Zoo officials, however, aren’t so sure it’s a good thing to put kids in the zoo, despite Dear Leader’s wishes, and are forced to make a decision: follow the orders of a deranged President, or resist.
And that’s when the adventure for Wally and his Fairy friends really gets started.
The manuscript is with proof readers now, and I plan to publish mid-January. The cover art isn’t done, but as soon as it is I’ll share it.
