'Happy Fun Ball & Other Stories to Read While Institutionalized' is Kailleaugh Andersson's first fiction collection since 1998.

Happy Fun Ball is a short story collection of insane, bizarre, mentally unstable fiction from the certifiable talent of Kailleaugh Andersson.

Happy Fun Ball will leave you thinking that the author of these stories is unsafe to be walking the streets 'sans' straight-jacket - but then again, is he really? Many of the stories in this book have drawn on real events and people the author knows - but which ones?

Sometimes there is more to fiction that meets the eye.

Happy Fun Ball brings together several classics - 'Dolls,' 'Risen,' 'Pull my Strings' and 'Happy Fun Ball' - as well as new psychotic stories such as 'Elvis Talks to Me,' 'Happy Pills,' Fruit Salad' and others.

Also included are the works of Andersson's 'other' personality - one RJ Rath - a PCP and Moonshine-addicted hick-from-hell who has been likened to as "John Wayne on Acid." Through Rath, Kailleaugh Andersson brings to life the Red Water-scented tall tales of Big John.

'Big John' is a black hat-wearing, six-shooter-packin,' lying son-of-a-bitch who resides in a cowless back-water cesspool in Mississippi. Did we mention that 'Big John' looks a lot like Gary Coleman? 'Big John' has frequent run-ins with the Devil (as you never imagined him before,) the local members of the KKK and some dead folks that just won't lie down no matter how many bullets he pumps into them.

The 'Big John' series is kind of like the deformed love-chil'lun of 'Bonanza,' 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' and 'Two Thousand Maniacs' with John Wayne as the prime suspect in the paternity suit!

Featuring cover art by Alex Severin. All copies are signed by both Kailleaugh Andersson & Alex Severin.

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