Fierce Imagination, $1.99, ISBN 979-8201802875
Horror, 2021

Tatum Johnson doesn’t like animals. Wait, he likes them one way: when he rams them dead with his vehicle—his favorite weekend hobby.

Okay. I suppose there are people out there that dislike animals to such a degree that they don’t mind damaging and replacing their vehicles for this purpose. Won’t it be cheaper to just buy a gun and go hunting on weekends?

Anyway, Dan B Fierce’s Roadkill King is all about Tatum getting his just desserts.

It’s a simple, straightforward, no nonsense story, and I am starting to warm up to it… until the talking squirrel shows up.

Then I start laughing out loud.

The first few chapters are rather ridiculous but still recognizably horror, only to be completely derailed with the last two chapters that are practically a straight-out absurd PETA-sponsored Disney cartoon complete with a deer version of Greta Thunberg scowling at Tatum.

Why does the author do this to the story? Why?

Sigh. Talk about a self-inflicted mortal wound!