What A Strange Thing We Are
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  • Reads 167
  • Votes 23
  • Parts 3
  • Time 47m
Ongoing, First published Apr 28, 2023
In this "Hitchhiker's Guide" meets "Dungeons & Dragons" darkly comical fantasy...

Depressive 50 year-old struggling artist Hodge-Podge Heirloom gets drawn into one of her paintings and discovers a fantastical and ridiculous world of swords & sorcery, magic & mayhem, monsters & beasties, and popcorn & anthropomorphic pets. Despite her crippling fear of doors, she must get over her social anxieties, her clumsy low self-esteem, and work around her ADHD to somehow bring both good AND evil together as one army against an Ancient God that wants nothing more than to see the entire universe simply go away.

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