Warning to the Glutton Intolerant: CHARLES FIRTH’S FRACTURED FAIRY TALES is not glutton free, with conspicuous consumption and capitalist exploitation at the fore of Firth’s fables.

Twee to the point of deedledum, CHARLES FIRTH’S FRACTURED FAIRY TALES comes with a caveat emptor on the disclaimer page: The paper in this book is 100% sourced from re-used soiled toilet paper, to better match the quality of the comedy throughout.”

You have been warned.

Firth goes forth with a fifth, making up five tales with nary a fairy in sight. More correctly, in this case, politically correctly, Firth’s five are folk tales, ancestral to Aesop, and, like the ancient, written with political and social criticism.

They’re also a little bit Grimm.

The Boy Who Wanted A Friend is a sober story about cyber space and social media, the fatuous fallacy of “friending” and the mammoth privacy issues of metadata as individuals face the monoliths of government, bureaucracies and multi nationals.

Gold Child and the Bear Family bares the unbelievable fact that females bear the brunt of domestic work and salary disparity.

The One Bad Prince is a Me Too tale that tackles toxic male behaviour.

And both Mr. Archimedes Bath and The Handsome Troll & The Ugly Professor set their sights on climate change.

Illustriously illustrated by Rania Mahmoud, Glitchfool, Chiara Corradet and Sabdo “Oketoon”, CHARLES FIRTH’S FRACTURED FAIRY TALES are, in the words of editor, Cam Smith, “parables so unbelievable, so clearly made up, you’ll be unable to resist believing them.”

Perfect as a politically correct stocking filler in the rampantly retail fuelled, capitalist exploitative fractured festivity of Christmas in July, CHARLES FIRTH’S FRACTURED FAIRY TALES is published by The Chaser Quarterly, printed, bound, gagged and left unconscious on a popular hiking trail by Spotpress.