Gridlock and Grizzly Bears
Language: English
Published by Julian Cross, 2026
- Softcover
- New
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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- Title
- Gridlock and Grizzly Bears
- Author
- Cross, Julian
- Publisher
- Julian Cross
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235009295
What happens when the universe crashes, the sky displays a system error, and an 800-pound grizzly bear politely asks you for a napkin?
Arthur Pendelton is a forty-two-year-old Senior Logistics Analyst who lives his life strictly by spreadsheets, pivot tables, and controlled variables. But when a routine commute on Interstate 90 grinds to a halt in late August, Arthur finds himself trapped in a five-mile gridlock that rapidly devolves into the ultimate system crash.
The power grid collapses, cell phones turn into paperweights, and the sky itself blinks with glowing operating system error messages. As if cosmic memory leaks weren't enough, four apex predators step out of the forest-led by Barnaby, an eight-hundred-pound grizzly bear with a velvet radio-announcer voice, an understanding of the Dewey Decimal System, and a pressing need to clean strawberry yogurt off his snout.
To survive an impending cosmic "Cache Flush" meant to purge unindexed temporary data, Arthur must team up with a retired trucker, a panicking runner, an overzealous HOA president, and a unionized crew of talking bears. Together, they deploy the ultimate weapon against reality's garbage collector: total, unbridled, low-index chaos.
Inside Gridlock and Grizzly Bears, you'll find:
- An Unlikely Hero: A spreadsheet-obsessed middle-management analyst who fights system glitches with supply-chain logistics.
- Polite Apex Predators: Eight-hundred-pound talking grizzlies offering perimeter security in exchange for cured meats and dental coverage.
- Absurdist Survival Comedy: HOA parking notices, trunk-snack exchange markets, flying salmon, and low-gravity rotating skyscrapers.
- A Glitched Pacific Northwest: Autonomous car ferries demanding paper manifests and floating high-rises needing mathematical alignment.
If you enjoy cozy apocalyptic satire, absurdist sci-fi humor, and laugh-out-loud survival adventures, grab your copy today and join the wildest commute of a lifetime!
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