The Fragmented Paradigm

The Existential Adventures of Monkey Boy

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Part 4 of 12

Summary:

The city has been overrun of late, invaded by a strange wave of eccentric criminals. There are men dressed as kangaroos waging a righteous war against the shopping world, omniscient elephants looking for a good grift, leopards and lions feuding over territory and tadpoles with laser eyes. And nothing can stop them, nothing can reason with them or contain them or predict them; and they continue to emerge, reminding humanity of its disgraces, its nightmares and its shameful secret that beneath all the veneers and delusions of civility, we are all truly animals struggling against our chains.

And amidst all this chaos and absurdity, there emerges the Monkey Boy. He came from nowhere. He has no name, no voice and no pants. But he does have an insatiable love of sprinkles, a nearly infinite number of alternate forms that bestow on him additional powers, and a sword shaped like a banana. He is a creature of a different and unknowable sort and may be humanity’s last hope to finally and truly cage the beasts within.

Part 4: “The Gathering Unkindness:”

Everybody seems off today. People are moody, they’re distracted, they’re dressing up in weird outfits and not robbing banks. And amidst it all, someone is scheming, someone is plotting, someone is up to something so radical, so completely absurd that it could end the earth in its wackiness.

Originally Written in 2011

Revised July, 2011

Revised Again March, 7th, 2012

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Tags: Action, fantasy, Monkey Boy, Novel, Superhero