Quaraun and A Quiet Place To Sweep (Chapter 1 of “Hansel and Gretel According To BoomFuzzy”)
The TL;DR Description:
Quaraun, newly escaped from Zebulon's Breeding Farm, with 35 pregnant she-Elves and their small children now travelling with him, worries about winter.
The Long Full Description:
Series Title: The Pink Necromancer: The Adventures of Quaraun The Insane aka The Twighlight Manor Series; The Quaraun Series (formerly known as The Twighlight Manor Series) spans more than 150 novels and more than 2,000 short stories published since the series started September 23, 1978. Each story is standalone and can be read in any order.
Story Title: Quaraun and A Quiet Place To Sweep (Chapter 1 of “Hansel and Gretel According To BoomFuzzy”): Quaraun, newly escaped from Zebulon's Breeding Farm, with 35 pregnant she-Elves and their small children now travelling with him, worries about winter.
TYPE: Short Story
WORD COUNT: 4,044 words
PAGE COUNT: approx 7 printed paperback pages
POINT OF VIEW: third person; Quaraun's point of view
HAPPY EVER AFTER? Does any volume in the Quaraun series ever have a happy ending?
CLIFFHANGER ENDING: Uhm... no-ish? This volume ends with a "To Be Continued…."
CONTINUING SERIAL? Yes and No.
This story is part of a longer novel-like story that I am still writing.
INTERRACIAL COUPLES? Yes; but not in this volume
LGBTQAI+ COUPLES? Yes; Quaraun is male and has 2 male husbands, and also 35 female wives.
GENRE: Dark Fantasy > Gothic Fantasy > Sword and Sorcery > Dialectic Fantasy > Experimental Abstract Literary Slice of Life > Gay Male Pulp Fiction Dialogue Vignette > Fictional Portrayal of Psychopaths > Grotesque Families & Relationships > Futuristic False Utopia Dystopic Societies > Fear of the Unknown Dystopian Literature > Dark Fantasy > Sword & Sorcery > Bizzarro > Literary > Absurdist > Yaoi > Gay Romance > Slice of Life > Dystopian > Post-Post-Zombie Apocalypse > Time Travel > Portal Fantasy > Character Study > Vignette
LANGUAGE: Scottish-Canadian English. This book is written by a Scottish author and is written in the author’s native language, Scottish English, then translated after into Canadian English.
LITERARY FICTION WARNING: This entire series is Character Driven Slice of Life Vignette Literary Fiction, meaning there's a lot of dialogue, a lot of talking, a lot of thinking, a lot of monologues, a lot of pontificating, and a lot of emotional introspective, but not much action or plot going on in this or any other volume of this heavily character driven series. Each story is a narrow, focused look at a single event (often a single day or hour) in Quaraun's life. This content warning has been added because for some reason, more than 1,000 readers have contacted me to suggest I add it because they said they would have bought nothing in the series had they known ahead of time this was LITERARY Fantasy and not generic Fantasy. shrug I don't see the need for this content warning, but, whatever. Here it is.
You'll Get...This purchase unlocks the "read on GumRoad" desktop edition of Quaraun and The Haunted Bookstore, wherein, after an arduous night spent correcting mistakes on his wanted posters, Quaraun, The Pink Necromancer, a wizard both feared and sought after worldwide, chances upon a bookstore teeming with specters. Trapped within the pages of ancient volumes, these souls implore the renowned necromancer to grant them freedom.