The innocent and naïve pig protagonist, Ham Shears, moves to the big city to try and make something of himself and mistakenly ends up working at a butcher shop. The well-meaning Ham doesn't make the connection between animals and meat products while the titular and eccentric "Boss" of "Boss's Butcher Shop" doesn't seem to notice the implications of hiring a pig to work for him.
Uncomfortable encounters with butcher shop customers ensue and eventually Ham Shears meets two girls from the neighborhood, the plucky Jill and no-nonsense Ingrid. They end up befriending Ham Shears and get wrapped up in the day-to-day weirdness that comes from knowing an anthropomorphic pig.
Madeline Queripel - All Rights Reserved.
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Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago
50 shades of freakout.
Dragoncat
said, 6 months ago
Why publish a novel if you think it’s terrible?
Darren Blair said, 6 months ago
@Dragoncat
You’d be surprised how things like that can happen.
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Back when I was younger (about 12 or so) mom got suckered by one of those “poetry competition” scams. She’d saved a poem that I wrote back in kindergarten, and so mailed in a copy thinking that we’d win big; as I was a minor, under the “rules” she could get away with it.
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It took nearly a decade for me to finally convince her that 1 she’d been swindled and 2 she’d humiliated me in the process.
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I can easily see how something similar happened: someone she knew got a copy of the manuscript and sent it in “on her behalf”, not realizing that there was a reason why she left it gathering dust.
Neo Blakkrstal said, 6 months ago
I should live and breathe to have such a problem. Oh, boo hoo, I made millions off of what I consider to be a “terrible novel” boo hoo, poor me. Ahhhhhhh SHUT UP!!!