Web site of Biff Mitchell, author, humorist, smartass and not-poet.

 

The Baton

Cover Art b;y Karen L. Syed

Also from Echelon Press as a Dollar Download

When terror and the absurd collide, you just know you’re not going to have a good day.

And then you add insult to injury.

More...

ISBN: 1-59080-262-4

What’s It All About?

This is the story of a sort of average guy who just isn’t going to take it anymore. And when he makes up his mind that he’s going to do something, look out! Hide your gum! Watch your manners! Ditch the cell phone! Stay away from bulletin boards! Turn your music down! Don’t spit on the sidewalk! And for god’s sake, don’t stop your car in the middle of the road!

Review by Barry Hunter in Baryon Online

Do you ever get ticked off at the inconsiderate person who will sit and talk on the cell phone and ignore the person they are with? How about the joker that sticks gum under the theatre seat? Or even the guy that hocks a luggie in the middle of the food court?

That’s what happens to the narrator of this short inexpensive download and he decides to do something about it. About once a month, he finds someone that ticks him off and he makes sure that they don’t do it again. But by the end of the  book, he decides he needs some help and he needs to pass THE BATON.

Biff Mitchell has written another satisfying short tale that makes you look at life a little differently than you did before you started reading. There’s a touch of Joe Lansdale in this one and in his previous
SMOKE BREAK . Give him a try, after all, a dollar won’t go far but it can buy you some entertainment.

Read MacLean’s on Assholes:

Rude Awakening

Top of Page