Sample chapters from an unpublished book by Jerry Stratton

Graveyard is about the profound importance of staying gone when you run away from home. Arthur’s dad leaves him in a shopping mall. Arthur runs after him but since his dad is in a car and Arthur isn’t, Arthur ends up lost in the Shopping Cart Graveyard. He befriends all of the shopping carts, except perhaps K-Marx the Communist Cart. Together with Fisher, a plastic shopping cart, and Voniece, a paraplegic who is not a shopping cart but rides in one, he saves the earth from an invasion of alien Llamas.

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Middle chapters

This book is a work of truth. Only the names have been changed, for names give power to your enemies. Any resemblance to actual events, or places, or persons both living and dead, means it probably happened to you.

Because there is such disagreement among the learned about these abstruse matters, we will consider them no further. — Thomas Pyle & John Algeo (The Origins and Development of the English Language, Third Edition•)