First: Huge thanks to those who have already purchased the book during this Countdown. I am honored and full of hope that you will enjoy the book.
Esau’s Fables: Prose Poems by Jedediah Smith now available as a Kindle Countdown Deal for $0.99, marked down from its original list price of $6.99, from November 8, 2025 to November 15, 2025.
Details:
Publisher: Mount Diablo Books
Publication date: January 23, 2025
Language: English
File size: 2.9 MB
Print length: 111 pages
Working in the tradition of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, John Lennon, and Jorge Luis Borges, Jedediah Smith uses surrealism and the absurd to travel easily between Homeric battle fields and Universal monster sets, quantum physics and the Fortean paranormal, archetypal mythology and modern pop culture. As the author puts it himself in “Carnival Road,” the a story about an unpaved lane that is in some inexplicable way hallucinogenic, each parable “creates its own logic that is neither symbol nor allegory but an insistence upon a world of its own making, where images connect in ways that cannot be explained, only experienced.”
From Esau’s Fables:
The Last Manson Girl
A news report states that the last Manson girl surrendered to authorities today.
She had been married to a police officer.
She had become a grandmother to sixteen, a great-grandmother to four.
She had hosted a public-access talk show for ferret owners in LA.
She smelled like cinnamon and nutmeg.
She decrypted the Voynich manuscript which gave her the gift of powwow.
She raised organic vegetables in an urban garden and chanted to keep the gophers away.
She had been seeking a return to the Edenic among the butchers of living flesh, a paradise under the red and black flag of the ax.
She has kept a journal since 1970 which runs backwards toward the Fall.
She might save us all.
Jedediah Smith 