Parody & Satire

Julie Montcalm had a problem - or two of them. Horace Hackett Jr. was behind deadline for a story she needed. But the worst of that is he had written her into the story itself, as a character. Along with her friend and fellow classmate Micah DeWolf, she was living the story itself as Hackett wrote it. Worse, it was a hack-job version of his father's pulp fiction story about Caribbean wars between the English and Spanish. And the two of them were right in the middle of it! Fictional characters aren't supposed to die in real life, right? Luckily, they both have their smartphones and can edit the story. Maybe even save their lives in the bargain. These two find plenty of adventure and even romance as they work to fix the story before it fixes them...

Only a Frump could be, elected in this modern age. Because no one trusted a man to get anything, right anymore. The first female president fit the model, and this reporter was putting the pieces together on how she got elected. She simply put a new approach to classic political ploys. The right gal, at the right time. All wasn't smooth sailing though...

A Collection of the Dark Humor Satire of R. L. Saunders Life in our dystopian near-futures has never been funnier. Saunders gets inspiration from our daily news, and these stories are therapy for us as well. Skewering what is accepted as conventional wisdom, Saunders explores concepts which are more easily delivered with entertainment than op-eds or tweet-storms. Always taking the "what if" of current controversies to their slippery-slope results, Saunders reminds us constantly to not take the world around us seriously. This anthology contains: - The Tunnel People - Mind Timing - Becoming Michelle - A Sweet Fortune - Keyboard in the Sky - Cats Typing Romance - The Maestro - Rise & Fall of President Frump - The Integrity Implosions - The Chardonnay Conspiracy Note: Mind Timing and Becoming Michelle were co-authored with C. C. Brower