Unlikely Alliances: Strange Friendships and Other Hysterical Disasters
What happens when goblins move into the suburbs, ghosts discover social media, houseplants develop opinions, and time travel goes spectacularly wrong?
In Unlikely Alliances, nothing goes according to plan-and that's exactly the point.
This laugh-out-loud collection of nine wildly imaginative stories explores the chaos that erupts when unlikely beings are forced to work together humans and monsters, ghosts and influencers, robots and the deeply unprepared people who live with them. From HOA-terrorizing goblins and viral hauntings to sarcastic AIs, sentient ferns, cosmic freeloaders, and pigeons with far too much power, these stories blend fantasy, science fiction, and sharp satire into disasters of the most entertaining kind.
At its heart, Unlikely Alliances is about connection-messy, ridiculous, unexpected connection-and the strange friendships that form when the world refuses to behave. Smart, irreverent, and packed with heart beneath the snark, this collection is perfect for readers who enjoy speculative fiction that doesn't take itself too seriously... but still knows exactly what it's doing.
If you like your humor a little unhinged, your genre lines blurred, and your disasters hilarious, welcome.
Buckle up, y'all. Things are about to get weird.
Grayson, Julie: -
Julie Grayson is a story architect and a word sorceress based in Loveland, Colorado, . Once a corporate wordsmith who focused on creating business policies and best practices, she escaped the fluorescent-lit maze of the corporate world in 2011 to return to school and write full time.
With over a decade of storytelling under her belt, she crafts vibrant worlds across genres-from satirical fantasy with laugh-out-loud endings to sci-fi thrillers that quicken your pulse and horror tales that linger long after the last page. These days, she builds narratives for herself and others-for fun, for pay, and for the sheer joy of bending words to her will.
After suffering from a traumatic brain injury in June of 2020 (caused by a massive pulmonary embolism that stopped her heart for forty-three minutes), she still believes anything worth doing is worth doing well. It is this mantra that's fueled her self-publishing journey of over thirty books. Her work spans fiction and deeply personal nonfiction, including raw explorations of raising Irish twins and navigating the profound grief of child loss.
When not penning her next page-turner, Julie's cheering louder than the coaches for her beloved Washington Capitals, Texas Rangers, and Green Bay Packers (in that order). She'll always bet on the underdog, will often dive into genealogy rabbit holes to resurrect forgotten family stories, and casually drop some ASL (sign language) in conversation.
At home, she's surrounded by her husband, Aaron; and two feline critics, General Binx and Captain Ovechkin, who silently judge her life choices like furry little gargoyles from their fridge-top throne.
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