Smack-dab, in the Middle of Nowhere (Waste Stories #1)
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  • Reads 173
  • Votes 74
  • Parts 52
  • Time 9h 39m
Complete, First published Jul 04, 2022
Mature
Free on Wattpad for the first time! In 2017, Duncan P. Pacey's debut post-apocalyptic comedy novel brought a gritty-yet-silly wasteland New Zealand to Amazon Kindle, and now you can enjoy it here.

~~Amazon/Goodreads reviews:~~

"Pratchetty humour with a hack n slash edge."
"I absolutely loved Pacey's humor and his descriptions of this tongue-in-cheek twisted world!"
"The odd characters are strangely engaging and what seems like a cracked narrative, cleverly comes together to tell a fascinating tale."

* * *

"Bert'd be damned if this bar did anything other than thrive. Smack-dab would prosper, or she'd shoot folk until it did."

Bert is the takes-no-crap bar owner of Smack-dab, a struggling tavern halfway from nowhere to nowhere else. All around her is the barren, post-apocalyptic Waste, a terrifying place plagued by villainous bandits, ravenous monsters, and Things that go bump in the night (and also eat you).

The Waste is in turmoil. Lord Ash has been overthrown, replaced by a terrifyingly powerful giant hell-bent on taxing anyone and everyone that can help fund his devious master plan. Smack-dab is threatened with total destruction, but Bert has a plan of her own. Can she rally enough help to fend off the bandits?

Strange and hilarious, "Smack-dab, in the Middle of Nowhere" is the fresh new face of the post-apocalypse, even if that face has more creepy mutant eyes than you expected.
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