Rob Roy O'Keefe
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Rob Roy O’Keefe was raised in the Antarctic by a colony of emperor penguins, which explains both his love of fish and his intense anxiety when in the company of sea lions. At the age of 12 he left to go on walkabout, but upon learning that Australia was over 3,000 miles away, he took the more expedient route from Cape Melville, Antarctica to South America’s Cape Horn.
He wandered north through the Andes, accumulated an abundance of practical knowledge, such as how to convince a hungry condor that you are not carrion. He eventually stumbled upon the hut of an Incan shaman who took him on as an apprentice. After a decade of immersion into the mysteries of the unseen world, Rob departed, fully prepared for his eventual success in the fields of talking, commuting, and sitting behind a desk. Today, Rob resides in New England’s Merrimack Valley, where he lives in a tree house made of Good Humor popsicle sticks held together by the discarded dreams of retired sailors. |
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19 Doors
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Science Fiction/Fantasy/Short story collection
19 Doors ranges far and wide, diving into magical realism and science fiction, then adding a dash of steampunk and surrealism for extra flavor. The collection ricochets from the poignant to the comically absurd, each short story a work of imaginative fiction. • A community remembers the lives they have yet to live. • An intergalactic tour bus arrives in Hollywood … Montana. • A shopping network super-fan relives every infomercial scenario he watches. • The first sentient being in the universe applies for a job as a sous chef. • A preternatural wind comes to collect a long-owed debt. Through 19 Doors, we are immersed in the unraveling lives of characters who are just like us and nothing like us. Whether they succeed or succumb, conform or rebel, we are treated to a compilation of stories that are frequently fraught, often fun, and always fantastic. 19 Doors Review 
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Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel
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Small town/Humor/Satire
Short listed by the Chanticleer International Book Awards for humor and satire. The Town Administrator is extorting residents! Subversive senior citizens are on the march! Crazed ponies rampage through the streets! Exclamation marks keep popping! up! everywhere! Duncan and Maya Small have just relocated to a new town. Again. And almost immediately, Duncan is ready to move on thanks to a power-obsessed local official who has it out for him. But Maya has ideas of her own. The Smalls soon discover nothing in their new town is at it seems, but one thing is certain - there's something funny going on. Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel, is a comic tale about life, power, and new beginnings in a quirky little town that's decidedly off-the-wall, yet remarkably familiar. It's about the last Welcome Wagon, secret societies, and bake sales. It's about Duncan Small's fixation on process and Maya Small's unforeseen celebrity. It's about unexpected friendships, which may turn out to be the best kind there are.
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Small Stories Special Edition
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Small town/Magical realism/Humor/Satire
This special edition includes Despot Times, an even more absurd alternate version of the almost, but not quite, award-winning book, Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel. The Town Administrator is extorting residents! Subversive senior citizens are on the march! Crazed ponies rampage through the streets! Exclamation marks keep popping! up! everywhere! Duncan and Maya Small have just relocated to a new town. Again. And almost immediately, Duncan is ready to move on thanks to a power-obsessed local official who has it out for him. But Maya has ideas of her own. The Smalls soon discover nothing in their new town is at it seems, but one thing is certain - there's something funny going on. Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel, is a comic tale about life, power, and new beginnings in a quirky little town that's decidedly off-the-wall, yet remarkably familiar. It's about the last Welcome Wagon, secret societies, and bake sales. It's about Duncan Small's fixation on process and Maya Small's unforeseen celebrity. It's about unexpected friendships, which may turn out to be the best kind there are. In this alternate version, Despot TImes, Maya and Duncan face all the challenges of the original story, but now they also have to contend with a host of history's B-list monarchs, one of whom is trying to make a comeback and isn't about to let a little thing like being dead for centuries stand in the way.
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All the Things I Don't Understand: A collection of sorts
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Poetry
As my lack of comprehension is nothing if not expansive, this collection could not truly contain all of the things I don't understand. Instead, it is focused on those subjects that I have found to be particularly perplexing: the universe, relationships, and grocery stores. Throughout these pages, you will discover a mix of poems and poem-like constructs addressing serious and less than serious subjects which are all, (okay, mostly) natural (again okay, maybe somewhat contrived) byproducts of our (really my) existence. The point is, reading through these pieces, you may come away feeling better about yourself, simply by realizing that by comparison, you carry a lot less baggage than you thought. Then again, you may just end up accepting you don't understand anything either. In the latter case, at least you'll have company. Enjoy.
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Living with the Monkey Mind: Poems and Other Shiny Objects
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Poetry
Living with the Monkey Mind is an attempt to craft a concise collection of poems that varies in topic, tone, and construct, creating a free-range landscape that shifts from the everyday to the abstract, the light to the dark, the personal to the universal, drawing on a variety of forms that include sestina and experimental verse. There is a conscious attempt to avoid linear or even logarithmic arrangements and embrace the disruption of the shiny object – all while trying hard not to sound like a pretentious jackass, which, after reviewing this description was not a particularly success effort. Please try to enjoy the work anyway. Some of the pieces in this series have appeared or are scheduled to appear in The Bitchin' Kitsch, Hiaku Journal, Parody, Penny Ante Feud, and The Syzygy Poetry Journal.
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Return of the Monkey Mind: More Poems and Wandering Thoughts
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Poetry
Return of the Monkey Mind picks up where Living with the Monkey Mind left off – as another collection of random subjects that have narcissistically been deemed interesting: the nature of existence, the capricious nature of love, and the profound presence of poultry. In this second collection, formal constructs such as Haiku and Tanka sit side by side with free verse and experimental forms. Serious subjects abound, but so does the occasional attempt at humor. All in all, Return of the Monkey Mind aspires to be unsystematically systematic and intentionally unintentional. Enjoy the work. Some of the pieces in this series have appeared or are scheduled to appear in The Bitchin' Kitsch, Hiaku Journal, Parody, Penny Ante Feud, and The Syzygy Poetry Journal.
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Last Gasp of the Monkey Mind: Even More Poems and Chance Discoveries
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Poetry
Last Gasp of the Monkey Mind: Even More Poems and Chance Discoveries, like most collections of poetry, addresses all of the customary topics: psychics and weather, the nature of reality, the value of integers, and metaphorical canines. Mirroring the previous two collections, there are 24 pieces to browse, which makes Last Gasp of the Monkey Mind both accessible and symmetrical. And just like those predecessors, it hurdles from the everyday to the uncommon, the happy to the somber, and the personal to the universal. If you find this to be a worthwhile read, and perhaps even more importantly, if you don't, check out Living with the Monkey Mind, and Return of the Monkey Mind. Enjoy.
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