The General Store

by Wright Forbucks

THE GENERAL STORE is a wicked sex comedy about what happens when small-town folks start minding their neighbors’ funny business.
Set in Apple, Massachusetts, the laughs begins when Mayor Happy Munson betrays yet another “friend.” But this time, it’s an old man with the money and brains to get even. Helping the old man seek revenge is Jebediah Jones, the well-endowed owner of the General Store who has been arrested for, literally, hanging out. Offended parties include Luke Keegle and his mother, Doris. Luke is an Internet whiz kid, a devout Christian, and owner of ColdPray.com, the web’s destination spot for purchasing “chastity wear.” Doris Keegle is the chairman of the town’s restoration committee. She wants to return Apple’s countryside to its original state. Her main target is the personal dump of her next door neighbor and Apple’s legendary biker bad boy, Rake Davis, who has been half-burying his old Ford pick-up trucks for decades. Bradford Bender, the town’s best and only lawyer, has been hired to fix the mess, but Sally Munson, the first lady of Apple and a registered martial arts instructor, is opposing him. And, she’s not going down without a fight. Also in the fray are the world’s most famous environmentalists, Crunchy and Macrame Montana, who are fighting to save the eeeking plover, a tiny bird whose near extinction has been carefully chronicled by the town’s historian, a socially awkward man named Bruce Pane who is living with an inflatable lover named Ms. Wheezy…

THE GENERAL STORE is Wright Forbucks’ pathetic attempt to author a mainstream comedy that will generate sufficient income to purchase a bean burrito and a small Mountain Dew.
Other works by Wright Forbucks include THE WALKING MAN, BILLY GRIST and EVEN STEVEN.
Please note: THE GENERAL STORE is Rated R due to crass language (85 F bombs) and sexual content. It contains 59,000 words.

201 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 28, 2012

About the author

Wright Forbucks writes dark comic fiction. His works feature a wicked sense of humor and plots involving spiritual quests. In addition to the critically acclaimed, THE WALKING MAN, Mr. Grist has written three other novels, including BILLY GRIST, EVEN STEVEN and THE GENERAL STORE. In addition to writing Mr. Grist is an inventor. He is married and the father of three young boys. He also has a degree from a school that begins with "H" that is located Cambridge, MA. So, he really isn't an idiot :)

Reviews

[T.L. Cooper · Rating 2 out of 5]

The General Store by Wright Forbucks is made up of chapters that feel like reading connected short stories. The stories sometimes feel a bit weird and push the reader toward edges of morality and immorality. Human interactions are strange but sometimes feel all too real. The idiosyncrasies of the characters make them interesting but often not very likable. The General Store weaves the stories of the members of the community together in ways that often don't seem connected yet end up being so in unexpected ways. Forbucks mixes up a variety of beliefs, attitudes, and people in ways that often can seem to decide if he's going to humor or to make a societal, perhaps even political, statement or both. The General Store is filled with the same kind of bluntness, humor, and double meanings that the author's name suggests.

[Shane · Rating 1 out of 5]

I truly love Even Steven. I found The Walking Man to be brilliant. This, the third book of Forbucks that I have read, was not in the same class as the other two. The only reason I even finished the book was because I kept hope that it would get better. It did not.

I am still a fan of the author and I look forward to trying Billy Grist; however, I don't have much -- well, anything really -- good to say about this particular novel.