Journey into Buddhism

Part childhood autobiography, part unbridled imagination 'The Thin Book of Fat Lies' is a seriously funny and imaginative collage of debatable truths and fiction from composer and writer Gary Paul Bryant, one guy who still refuses to get a day job. While none of these eight short stories compares to a Greek tragedy, the author delivers where it counts- humor.

In 'Stall' we explore a typical day at the end of time. In 'The Phone' Quigley Smith discovers the childhood phone at a local antique store and gets a startling surprise when he makes his first call. Drawing on Bryant's own childhood experience, 'Spaceships' shows us what can happen when we try to emulate our rocket-driving heroes.

Gleason Snickell shows us what life is really all about in 'Gleason Snickell and the Search for Love' and 'The Bitter Climb' finds an unhappy young man getting some important choices made for him. 'The Fourth Grade: My First Oral Report' would make Twain's Hick Finn smile and Robert Levenplatter gets to live just a bit longer in 'Awkward: The First Resurrection of Robert Levenplatter. Finally, the previously published 'The First Ride: The Real Story of Santa Claus' was Bryant's first foray into short fiction, rounds out the collection.

An award-winning composer with more than two hundred published songs, Gary's 'blue-collar' songwriting has placed his music in thousands of YouTube videos while his fiction writing continues to plague and baffle readers the world over.