The Inn at the End of the World

About the Book

It all starts with God's aunt.

You didn't know the Lord God had an aunt?

She wanders the Earth, carrying a sack into which she pops the curses

and maledictions that spout from the mouths of humankind like the vile

emanations of a volcano. This, lest the flood of abominations reach her

Nephew's ears and rouse sorrow and anger in Him.

Overhearing a morsel of wisdom from Myron Blunger, she attempts to

relay it Upstairs, but her aim is bad and the keeper of the Inn at the End of

the World learns the whereabouts of Blunger ....

Yes, the Inn at the End of the World. That's the final abode of

fictional characters who have maintained a readership. Holmes and Watson

reside there, as do Long John Silver, Cinderella, Don Quixote and many, many

others, including Joey Willem, a ten-year-old boy created by this same

Blunger.

Joey has stolen the Innkeeper's seven-league boots! Now the Innkeeper

has Blunger, an overweight, retired librarian, kidnapped from his two bedroom

apartment in the Bronx and brought to the Inn so he can write Joey back ...

with the boots!

That he put forth a sincere effort, he is to put himself into the

storyline.

The sequence of adventures he finds himself enmeshed in would freeze

the heart and kishkes of the bulliest, most strapping, red-headed adventurer

ever to buckle a swash.

In the Grand Finale, he finds himself belly-down on a rocky plateau

between the Dromedary Mountains, facing the invasion of Earth by Wotan, Loki,

Frost giants, goblins and the like, with a flesh-eating leech eating at his

rump. He cries for aid, which arrives from a most unexpected source.

About the Author

Gene Levin, a physics professor at York College, City University of New York, has been writing fiction for nearly twenty years, with a number of short stories published to date. Growing up in the Bronx, he attended Horace Mann high school, the University of Vermont, and received a Master’s degree from Columbia and a Ph.D. in physics from New York University. His hobbies include: tennis, writing, reading novels, trying the Sunday Times crossword puzzle and playing bridge, at which he and his wife are Advanced Beginners.