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Horror, Transgressive, Dark Humor, Drama

Bleak language in some areas of the book, and probably romance if you count the talking pink crayola: a hopeless romantic. Fornication here, there everywhere! It is an Odyssey of Dingbats, I can tell you that. One bizarre and sick story after another. Reading it is like reading a schizophrenic’s private diary. A dime store novel like no other… An Odyssey of Dingbats, it sure is! The people in these anthologies are just trying to go about their days and figure things out. While an old fart is looking for his golden elephant and another old man is spilling his heart out about his dead chimp to a couple of yahoos in group therapy, an orange crayon is going through an existential crisis (or perhaps a revelation) and a woman named Colleen got the shits and had a terrible nightmare in the shitter. An Odyssey of Dingbats indeed-indeed. When you read it, it’ll make you laugh your bottom off and wonder to yourself “what in God’s name is wrong with these folks?” nothing much really, they are living and existing like you and I. My good sir and Madame, I present to you…  AN ODYSSEY OF DINGBATS!!!!!!!!

“24-year-old, neurodivergent, multidisciplinary artist slides into the DMs of half the contemporary ‘alt lit’ writers in New York and Los Angeles and comes out the other side publishing an insane short story collection interspersed with renditions of his visual art, which ranges from ‘twee’ to ‘frightening.’ King’s collection contains the best short story about BDSM I’ve ever read and it’s from the perspective of a crayon. To my knowledge, there’s nothing else like this in any ‘literary scene.’ You have to pay attention.”
— Chris Zeischegg, Author of The Magician and Creation: On Art and Unbecoming 

“While some like to wear the costume, Mr. Omar King is an actual artist. He lures you into his beautifully bizarre world with unfiltered stories that don’t waste words, paintings that evade imaginations, and a voice too honest to mimic. An Odyssey of Dingbats is heavy with tales that are tender and raw in all the right places.”
— Jake Fraczek, author of The Waiting Room and Quicksand