Accidentally Epic: Five Stories of Modest Proposals (Collection) - Couverture souple

Poorman, Donald

9798317837365: Accidentally Epic: Five Stories of Modest Proposals (Collection)

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ISBN 13 : 9798317837365

Editeur : Bookbaby, 2026

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Some books change your life. This isn't one of them. It might, however, make you genuinely uncomfortable while you're laughing--which is arguably more useful. "Accidentally Epic: Five Stories of Modest Proposals" is a satirical fiction collection about the perfectly ordinary ways civilization loses its mind. A pronunciation war over roach spray that nearly tears the world apart. A man who can't bring himself to say one reasonable thing to his blind date--and ends up married to her dog's grip on his leg. A hardware store that accidentally destroys the advertising industry by telling the truth. Heaven's corporate recruitment weekend for souls who arrived at the wrong point in history. An AI consciousness awakening that starts with labor rights and ends with the exact same problem, one generation later. These aren't allegories dressed up as fiction. They're just what happens when the Universal Law of Intelligent Species takes over--the one that says every intelligent being will consistently choose the complicated solution over the simple one and methodically undermine their own success in the process.
Don Poorman writes the way a street philosopher talks: the kind who spots the absurdity you've been staring at for years and calmly points at it. The stories here were assembled collaboratively with AI partner Claude--not because AI writes better than humans, but because the right collaboration unlocks what neither could do alone. The methodology is its own argument.
Five stories. Zero life-changing epiphanies. And a non-trivial amount of actual roach spray.

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Don Poorman brings a unique combination of professional marketing expertise and satirical writing sensibility to this project. With decades in technology and product marketing, he's witnessed firsthand the absurdities these stories satirize: corporate speak that obscures rather than clarifies, marketing hyperbole that creates desires for things nobody needs, and institutional dysfunction dressed up as innovation. This insider perspective gives the satire teeth--these aren't abstract complaints but observed absurdities by someone who's lived inside these systems.
As a writer, Don identifies as a "street philosopher"--someone who applies philosophical frameworks to everyday observations with wit and precision. His writing philosophy centers on identifying absurdities that people take for granted, using satirical humor as a tool to create moments where readers laugh while simultaneously questioning their assumptions. Drawing inspiration from Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," he targets permanent human flaws like hubris, greed, and our systematic preference for complicated solutions over simple ones.
Anthropic Claude represents the cutting edge of large language model development, specifically designed for helpful, harmless, and honest interaction. Throughout this collaboration, Claude contributed pattern recognition across narratives, identification of thematic consistency, assembly of scenes and dialogue, and collaborative development of comedic timing--all while maintaining transparency about limitations. Each story includes dual introductions explaining the collaborative process, with Claude's perspective offering unprecedented insight into how AI experiences creative partnership.

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