Somewhere a Straitjacket is Waiting

by Gregory Carter

Ask any good psychologist and they’ll tell a celebrity crush that begins with a hallucination in a dentist chair will probably end in grief. But when you’re Elmer Buckles, stuck in a town called Bile Springs, Florida, and the celebrity is Jeanie Devine, you have little to lose by casting aside good judgment and societal norms. And when the hallucination begins manifesting itself in the real world with signs, wonders and spooky coincidences, it’s practically a green light to strike out on a hero’s journey with little more than the hope that can only arise from simply not knowing any better. Besides, what do these stick-in-the-mud shrinks know of true love?

Somewhere a Straitjacket is Waiting is for anyone who’s ever had a celebrity crush and wondered what it’d be like to take this madness to its ridiculous extreme. Sixty-seven thousand hand-picked, factory-fresh words await. Enjoy.

247 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 7, 2022