The Younger Games

by S.D. King

Overview

In a future land of tyranny and manipulation—and grim bathroom humor—twelve-year-old Dogny suddenly finds herself thrust into the ancient combat of the nation’s Younger Games. The youngest member of each family, or a designate, is pitted against others and forced to make her or his way through innumerable pitiless childish amusements. Only one may emerge victorious. Using her training, as well as her marbles, Dogny contends with deadly human-animal-vegetable hybrids, the mysterious and shrewish Cougar Woman, and the most vicious enemy of all: screaming toddlers. If she survives, will Dogny choose to skip to the finish, so she can go home to her family? Or will her blossoming affection for another unwilling young combatant, handsome would-be suitor Petter, prevent Dogny from being the victor of the Younger Games?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013125155
Publisher:	Wits End Publications
Publication date:	08/12/2011
Series:	The Younger Games , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	183 KB

About the Author

An actor by training, a linguist by cunning, and an academic by degrees, S. D. King is an unabashed herpetophile from California who tries to write in serious mode but mostly fails. King’s influences in comedy, satire, and parody include Rabelais, Caragiale, Pirandello, Mark Twain,Terry Pratchett, Tom Lehrer, and Anonymous. The Younger Games is King’s first full-length novella. It shall not be the last.