This volume includes the first two novels in The Chase Chronicles: The Kingdom of Absurdities and A Chronicle of Wasted Time. The Kingdom of Absurdities: Trigger warnings, micro aggressions, and old white guy privilege. All the madness, insanity and absurdity we witness every day in politics, journalism and personal life, began in the laboratories of humanities departments in academia when English professors, based upon their ability to read, decided they were experts in EVERYTHING and unleashed the virus of Political Correctness on an unsuspecting nation. Wielding the unholy trinity of race, class and gender, academics seized power not only in academia, but in journalism and politics as well, creating our current dystopia, THE KINDGOM OF ABSURDITIES. Return with us now to those early days with Chase, a grad student in English at The University of Southern Arizona (U of SA), where he attempts to lead a one-person revolution against the triple-headed hydra of Political Correctness as it crawls its way out of academia into the USA. Savagely funny, indignant, and politically incorrect, THE KINGDOM OF ABSURDITIES is an all-too- timely warning against not only letting the lunatics take over the asylum but letting them loose to run the rest of the world as well.A Chronicle of Wasted Time: Summer 1999. After the events chronicled in The Kingdom of Absurdities, Chase leaves the U of SA and the USA, running away to Europe in a romantic quest for fame and fortune as an expat writer. Living in Paris trying to finish a novel, he's stalked by his ex-girlfriend, falls in love with a married woman, loses everything and winds up teaching at the world's worst school in an Alpine wasteland in Switzerland before escaping to Venice, Italy. A hilarious satire of expats, writers, academics, critics, and artistic pretensions, A Chronicle of Wasted Time recalls a time before 9/11, digital nomads, hook-up apps, cloud storage, social media, identity politics, #MeToo and global pandemics.
