The Complete Preface to Book One
The humorless, virally afflicted discussed below are not the antagonists in fiction, but they are in real life.
They, who have never been closer to war than a Netflix video, created a battle between themselves in the low-star reviews and military veterans in the five-stars. Not even reviewers are allowed to know anything or have life experiences when faced with the conceit of the hostile intruders. This is on top of their disallowing knowledge and life experiences of the author and the team who help with the books, which includes veteran Marines and men who were with the US Army 75th Ranger Regiment. The afflicted demand that the Hollywood-bogus, clenched-buttock, bravado-spewing combat infantrymen who say trite things and never banter or joke. Who knew that crap had a target audience?
Read quotes about military and first responder dark humor to understand how real it is. But that is for the uninfected, healthy-brained people who can actually use the internet, which the others proved they could not do—what are they, Amish?
Read the author’s first-hand experience with Complex-PTSD (live link shared at the back of this book).
From Literary Devices:
[Dark or gallows] humor is a literary device used in novels and plays to discuss taboo subjects while adding an element of comedy. Cambridge Dictionary defines it as a non-serious way of treating or dealing with serious subjects. It is often used to present any serious, gruesome, or painful incidents lightly. The writers use it as a tool to explore serious issues, inciting serious thoughts and discomfort in the audience. (1)
The United States is under threat from a highly contagious virus that causes the disease Stupidos americanos—commonly known as Stupid. Strains are spreading in other first-world countries, such as Stupidos britannia, so they need to stop their damn gloating! The strain Stupidos ruthenia in Russia is the most virulent so far. However, unlike other strains, this one does not cause a depletion of historical knowledge, but rather gives a euphoric sensation about terrible history and a belief that the same things should be done again. The Stupid virus explains a lot, doesn’t it? (Feel free to use it in your own stuff.)
The infected need to be quarantined before the virus spreads across the Earth and destroys the intelligence of the human species!
Stupid is the disease that obviously drains the sufferers of a sense of humor. It makes them severely arrogant and strips them of any ability to observe anything at all. Therefore, they denounce humor as an impossibility in the world. No matter how exaggerated and ridiculous a Bostonian character’s dialogue statements are, the infected take him dead seriously and proclaim his words to be the opinion of the author, whom they know nothing about and won’t look into.
A No-Duh, Captain Obvious Disclaimer:
The characters in this story represent themselves. Their views do not reflect the author’s. They are not intended to epitomize any group of people or culture, living, dead, or otherwise, be it past, present, future, from an alternate timeline, or another Earth in the Multiverse.
Once they are identified, escort the Stupid to your nearest Neighborhood Watch Station for prompt quarantine. Unlike with bitey zombies, it is not legal to shoot them in the head, no matter how much it feels like a defense of humanity.
Watch out when the infected group together as a shambling horde. Some may be runners!
Starting in early 2021, the worst were the psychotics who were so attacking and bullying that they scared the hell out of would-be reviewers. The target audience readers contacted the author with their concerns about these ex-con members of hate groups. Alas, such shadow dwellers provoked the creation of two identical series under different titles and pen names to shake their deceitful propagandizing demon-discharge off of this amazing story. That was a colorful sentence, wasn’t it? More on this under “The Not-Funny Part of the Warning Preface.”
The two titles are the original Extinction Level Event by K.J. Jones and the later Zombie by Kat-Jo Jones. They are available on Kindle Unlimited, Kindle, and in paperback. Both titles have extremely large author followings on Amazon and thus are updated with new installments of the story. See the blog post “The Story Behind Two Titles That Are Identical Books”.
Finally, for public safety, the infected need to be promptly rounded up and cordoned off. Sadly, much of the government has contracted the Stupid virus—explains a shitload, doesn’t it?
Now that the non-target audience intruders have departed with a haughty huff, on with the actual serial* story.
*FYI: The meaning of a serial is a story with a single continuous plot that unfolds gradually through successive installments, often ending episodes with a cliffhanger to maintain audience engagement.
The Not-Funny Part of the Warning Preface:
The Stupid infected insist elite military multi-combat tour veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the young civilian characters who are thrown into the deep end of survival, must have no coping skills, because that’s what Hollywood shows in zombie movies and TV series.
Factoid: Those military service personnel human beings in war who do not utilize dark humor and try to behave “normal” are the ones at high risk of suicide. It takes a certain mentality to emotionally and psychologically survive, despite how the civilian “civilized” society may view them, which causes enormous problems for veterans, and not something the Vikings or any other warrior culture experienced. (Combat vet Legionnaires did experience it with the civilians of Ancient Rome.) This serial* story will eventually, at an appropriate time, show no-coping-skills people who have physically survived but not mentally. They will never be among the major characters. The story, which is based on facts and plausibility—this really could happen—would be extremely dark and depressing if it showed such no-coping skills among the major characters. Go somewhere else for depression-inducement, or watch the American news!
Not only do the infected demand bogus Hollywood infantrymen, but they also dictate that multi-combat tour, elite military veterans, and the young civilians thrown into the life-or-death, kill-or-be-killed scenario show zero coping strategies. That sure would make a standalone, one-off novel, something else they emphatically dictated this book was, despite all evidence to the contrary. It would be a really short book, since the characters would have psychotic breaks, commit suicide, or get themselves killed pretty fast. Let’s be real, something this story is distinguished for by readers who know things from the real world of planet Earth.
The way the combat vets behave helps the civilians tremendously in developing their coping skills. But the Stupid infected dictate a silly, derivative, done-to-death, knockoff novel, and nothing else is permitted, or else they go whackjob manic in the reviews to such an emotively extreme level that people are analyzing their psych issues. Alas, the psychos are even worse.
They cannot get away with this on most platforms, but Amazon is really strange. By not pulling abusive, propagandizing for ulterior motives, downright lying about objective facts reviews, Amazon believes this is creating more credibility for reviews, when it’s the exact opposite, which growing numbers of shoppers are learning. And Goodreads, owned by Amazon, is a hot mess compared to other platforms similar to it. Hence, the psycho branch of the infected utilizes both to the max for their twisted shits and giggles game playing, knowing that this is Amazon’s policy. Good times!
For more Quotes Regarding Dark Humor Among the Military and First Responders, Including First-Hand Experiences
“There’s a reason that dark humor is such a consistent part of the work culture among those who serve in the military, support their communities as first responders or provide care in a hospital setting. Individuals working in these fields, as well as those who share tragic or traumatic experiences, can connect by taking a lighthearted, if a little irreverent, approach to the difficult topics and circumstances they’re forced to confront. Going through difficult times can be isolating, but humor combats that by providing people with shared experiences an opportunity to bond.”–source FHE Health Restore.
Go at the Invading Humorless Non-Target Audience in Reviews!
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Here are the links!
Goodreads for Extinction Level Event, Book One
Amazon for Extinction Level Event, Book One
The link for Zombie by Kat-Jo Jones on Goodreads is coming. Currently, on that hot mess of a platform, there are a ton of website pages for that book, argh. Get your shit together, Goodreads!
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