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The Solid Green Birthday & Other Fables

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Kona Lowell has produced a collection of vignettes that will charm and delight the most jaded reader.

This stuff is different. The flavor is suggested in the dedication: To Chee: for saying, "I don't get it" instead of "That's really stupid."

It's not stupid. Just different. Delightfully different. Fifty-five mostly humorous and insightful essays on life, the world, Kona Lowell's world of Hawaii, and into the strange and wonderful mind of Kona Lowell.

Typical are:

"The Atheist Who Couldn't Swear Too Good -- One day when I was driving to the grocery store to get some socks, I accidentally cut another car off. I guess my mind was somewhere else. I was thinking about my new socks and sort of mentally rearranging my sock drawer to accommodate the newcomers. I didn't notice he had gone into a ditch. I just saw him waving at me. Anyway, this guy was awful mad . . . . "

or "My Miniature Girlfriend [this must be Chee] -- I have a girlfriend who's very short. A few more inches and she would qualify for midget status. She is not happy about this. She would like to be very tall, and probably willowy and blond, too, but she isn't. She's short and brunette and Chinese. My girlfriend does not like short people jokes. She isn't too crazy about Chinese people jokes either, so I try to avoid combining the two. But I can never resist, when someone asks me, 'Where's your girlfriend?' answering, 'She'll be here shortly.' I am usually the only one who gets it. . . . "

or "I Hate Clowns -- I hate clowns. I have always hated clowns for as long as I can remember. This may be one reason I never ran off and joined the circus when I was a kid. I would have had to hang around clowns all day and I hate them. Never was too crazy about parades either. Too damn many clowns . . . . "

Read on. Kona Lowell will tell you about "The Monster Under My Bed," "The Day the Cats Took Over the World," "The Very Bad Grocery Store," "So You Want to Be a Writer," the title essay, "The Solid Green Birthday," and many more tales of life and Lowell. All will bring you a bit closer to the strange and unusual world of Kona Lowell, and every one will help just a bit to make this a slightly better day.

Enjoy!

Kona Lowell is hysterical! The "fables" told here don't have a moral, nor do they instruct. These delightful stories make you see through multidimentional "eyes". They are fairy tales for adults, full of wonder and the joy of everyday life.

In this day and age we need someone pied-piperish to lead the way to the other side of the mountain.

this volume was a pleasure to read: hilarious, thought-provoking, and enlightened. Kona Lowell is a wonderful writer and I look forward to reading more of his work! I recommend this book to all.

Whimsical sounding, but reads with so much insight you find yourself just sitting thinking over each short story and what is really being said. Truly wonderful.

A hilarious (refreshing) read... Well worth the money and a special place on your bookshelf... Share in the merriment by reading it aloud to your partner (it's only 112 pages long). A REAL GEM! Henry White, Colorado