This Laugh's On Me

'No, not a little Whyte volume of serious literary fiction, my dear, but a big, black book bursting with buffoonery and belly laughs.'

Hemingway Whyte, Cert II Whine Appreciation

A struggling writer is given five minutes to overcome his writer's block. A bear experiences the highs and lows of making the big time in Tinseltown. A former student delivers a stirring, off-the-cuff eulogy for a beloved mentor and literary giant. An infamous athlete seeks to have history rewritten. A woman unlucky in love purchases a mail-order husband a tenth of her height. Sherlock Holmes is called upon to solve a case of a most curious kind. A disgruntled fictional villain attends an AA meeting. A young man brings a special friend home to meet his parents. A gambler's luck turns when he wins a can of three bean mix. A South American beauty cures the POTUS's insomnia. A llama laments the prominent hole through his head. A retrenched troll relocated to the countryside seeks to win the heart of a fair maiden. A scout on a hike to earn his Hiking badge meets a mass murderer. And the First Couple are in therapy.

Martin Smith and his motley troupe of players present This Laugh's On Me, a debut collection of thirty-four stories filled with humour, poignancy and the mischievous musings of a little boy who never quite grew up.

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