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Cocktales: Overheard LA Cocktail Party One-Liners Turned Into Eclectic Short Stories
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: Bossking Kingboss Publishing
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
One cocktail party. Ten bizarre one-liners. Ten unforgettable stories.
At a show-bizzy Los Angeles cocktail party, an author wandered the party eavesdropping. Instead of polite small talk, they took notes on the most interesting, strange, and hilarious one-liners floating through the room.
Not knowing the true context of these conversations, the author used each overheard phrase as a title - and let his imagination run wild. The result is COCKTALES, an eclectic, genre-bending short story collection where every title is a real one-liner hidden inside the dialogue of the story itself.
Step into the party and travel across worlds and genres:
- Comedic Escapades: Hijinks inside Buckingham Palace.
- Classic Noir: A dangerous femme fatale prowling a smoky jazz club.
- Deep Space Isolation: A poignant look at loneliness on a distant planet.
- Psychological Drama: A lost romance and a crippling, trauma-induced fear of rain.
- War & Morality: A young soldier behind enemy lines puzzling over good and evil.
- Hollywood Satire: An actor desperate to escape the spotlight.
And more...
Perfect for fans of Black Mirror, Roald Dahl's tales of the unexpected, and high-concept experimental fiction. Mix yourself a drink, pull up a comfy chair, and listen in on the conversation.
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