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The Strange and Unbelievable Tall Tale of Mighty Max
Paperback
Series: The Long Shadow Series by Duncan Gaye, Book 4
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Duncan Gaye
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Brian Dunleavy came to the North Woods to write a serious novel. Instead, he falls in love with a kitschy paper towel mascot.
It begins with a whistle in the trees and the unmistakable sense of being watched. A boot print the size of a bathtub. Then a muscular, 43-foot-tall lumberjack steps out of the forest like a dream come true.
Mighty Max is handsome. He is kind. Broad-shouldered and blue-eyed, he lives in permanent flannel. He claims he was born from tall tales and campfire legends-back when giants were needed and believed in. But giants fade when they are mocked, and legends disappear when they're forgotten.
As solitude turns to intimacy, myth turns warm and very, very tangible. Brian finds himself lifted in the careful palm of the colossal man whose shadow stretches across the meadow like dusk itself. Beneath cold stars and beside impossible bonfires, he discovers that loving a giant means choosing to believe in him even when belief bends reality.
Reality is definitely bending. And when Max is reclaimed by the forest, Brian may be the only one who can write him back into being.
If stories invent their tellers, who is keeping whom alive?
Strange, tender, playful, and proudly queer, The Strange and Unbelievable Tall Tale of Mighty Max is a mythic romance about loneliness, longing, and the radical act of loving something larger than life.
For fans of tall tales, gentle giants, and big-hearted queer love stories.
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