**2022 NYC BIG BOOK AWARD WINNER/COMEDY** **2022 HOLLYWOOD BOOK FESTIVAL AWARD WINNER** **2022 FINALIST, AMERICAN FICTION AWARDS, HUMOR/COMEDY/SATIRE** Search for the People of the Temporary Tattoo. Examine the tortured mind of the Mad Stock Boy. Thrill to the exploits of the Hugging Detective. Cower in fear of the Grateful Man. These adventures and more await you in Giant Banana Over Texas: Darkly Humorous Tales, a collection of thirty-one short stories, perfect for fans of absurd comedy....

Presenting laugh-out-loud stories for lovers of absurd comedy, featuring an eccentric cast of characters including Derek Organ: Private Investigator, Lionel the Moth, Roman slave Servus Minimus, the Battlefield Masseur, ambulance chaser Bradley Scherp, the Incredibly Delusional Shrinking Man, Compound Fracture the Clown, and of course, the Dancer on the Ceiling.

Time traveling Scottish grave robbers, a sad loner who murderously re-enacts the Boston Tea Party, a jealous husband in pursuit of the tree he believes is his wife's lover, and senior citizens who battle extraterrestrials for their favorite booth at the local diner. They have dark, absurd tales to tell. Come meet them on the Sunset Cruise, and bring a coin for the Ferryman. (He works for tips.) The dark terror of Monty Python meets the absurd merriment of Clive Barker -- or is it the other...

In a time when Communism still ruled and mobile phones, the Internet and denture whitening were things of the future a deluded and ill equipped young couple set out on a 32,000km surreal adventure across some of the most remote areas in the world to break a 15 year old world record and prove to themselves that it's not 'evil' nations' you need to beware of but the people who tell you such toss! Hapless or hopeless? It’s a tough call. We’ve been called both, probably quite fairly. B...