Aryn Bats, Aaron Gehrig

Beneath the Bed & Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

So... picture this.

I'm Darren, just your average divorced dad, scraping by in a suburban shoebox of a house that smells like burnt coffee and regret. My life's a bit like a sitcom that got canceled mid-season. Messy, a little sad, but still trying for laughs.

Our daughter, Izzy, she's the star of the show, a pint-sized tornado of sparkles and imagination who makes everything brighter. When she's around, I'm Dad of the Year, whipping up star-shaped sandwiches and spinning tales about dragons with bad aim. But when she's off with her mom, Rachel, and her new beau, Greg the Giant-Headed Brain Surgeon, the house gets quiet. Too quiet. Like, "I'm talking to the Roomba just to hear a voice" quiet.

That's when things got weird. I'm talking capital-W Weird, like "did I accidentally eat expired yogurt and hallucinate a furry apocalypse" weird. One night, I'm moping in the kitchen, drowning my sorrows in flat beer, when something moves under Izzy's bed. Not a sock, not a dust bunny, but a full-on, seven-foot-tall, orange-furred, purple-horned, whiskey-drinking monstrosity who calls himself Mr. Bubbles. Yeah, you heard that right. Mr. Bubbles. Sounds like a clown for hire, looks like a Cheetos puff mated with a Care Bear, and talks like he's auditioning for a buddy comedy with me as the straight man.

At first, I'm thinking I've finally cracked, that my brain's checked out and left me with a hallucination who farts nerve gas and photobombs selfies. But Mr. Bubbles isn't just some figment, he's real, or real enough, and he's got a mission. To yank me out of my post-divorce funk with a mix of bad jokes, backyard shenanigans, and therapy sessions that smell suspiciously of Jack and Coke.

What follows is a rollercoaster of ridiculousness, think treasure hunts with clues scrawled in monster claw, late-night talks about feelings (ugh), and a kid named Oliver with his own googly-eyed imaginary sidekick. It's nuts, it's messy, and it's the most fun I've had since I accidentally set my eyebrows on fire trying to grill. This is the story of how I learned to laugh again, to keep the door cracked for imagination, and to realize that friends, even the ones who look like they escaped a Dr. Seuss fever dream, are always closer than you think, ready to save you with a burp and a grin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bats
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232445621
• Artikelnr.: 76118078

Autorenporträt

Aryn Bats is a Canadian author of horror, psychological thrillers, serial killer crime fiction, dark gothic fantasy epics, and relentless suspense. A self-publishing indie writer through Draft2Digital and Kindle Direct Publishing, Aryn began releasing work publicly at age 48, though the passion for storytelling started at sixteen. After decades working in the trades, a severe back injury and long recovery shifted the course of his life. When the depression lifted following successful spine surgery, the urge to write returned stronger than ever.

Bats dusted off an old manuscript written as a teenager, expanded it into a full saga, and has not stopped since. Known for twisted serial-killer crime sagas like Grey Kong, Bah Bah Blacksheep, and Cry Little Sister, as well as Dark Fantasy Epics such as Brackengloom, also atmospheric stand-alone horrors such as The Coroner's Daughter, 1313, Marlowe's Grin.

Bats blends psychological depth with dark, immersive storytelling.

Readers who enjoy the unsettling tension of Stephen King, the psychological sharpness of Gillian Flynn, or the stylized darkness of shows like Hannibal, Dexter and Mindhunter will find a familiar chill in Aryn's work.

Bats has published over 30 novels to date and has more than 30 new stories in development... proof that sometimes a second chance at life ignites a fiercer voice than the first.