Political Satire/Fiction
Date Published: October 28th, 2025
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
At the turn of the next century, a corporate oligarchy rules America
with an iron fist. Commercial jingles have replaced the Top Forty, babies come
from factories, and the race captivating the nation isn’t between
political candidates. It’s the cutthroat competition to find the formula
for No-Sog Stay-Crisp Cornflakes.
The battle pits cereal titan Todd Swindell, head of Flakes Alive Incorporated,
against Chad Scandalman of the Great American Flake Company. When Scandalman
hires a diminutive assassin named Twinkle to bump off his rival’s top
chemist, it sparks a war of the flakes that makes the bloody feud of York and
Lancaster look tame by comparison.
But not everyone in the Cornflake capital of Domino, Indiana, is happy with
the status quo. Ziggie Wexler, an unemployed pipefitter and all-around average
Joe, knows that something is deeply wrong with his country.
All history prior to 2040 has been banned, but old-timers whisper about the
days when people still voted for their leaders. After Ziggie posts fiery
polemics against the state to the Clandestine Journal, he becomes a marked
man. But in a world built on lies, there’s one truth he’s sure of.
Somebody needs to fight back.
About the Author
Retired IT professional, James Owens is a trained computer engineer and
technical documentation specialist who earned an A.A.S. in computer
programming and a B.A. in English from Purdue University.
Immensely curious about human behavior, James spent the 1970s hanging out on
the streets to observe people, many of whom became inspirations for his
fictional characters. Later, he worked in cube farms at conservative insurance
companies, where the idiosyncrasies of corporate personalities sparked his
imagination.
James has spent the last decade reading and writing offbeat fiction about
bizarre protagonists. Corporate Almighty: 2098, a dystopian tale about the
rise of the corporation and the fall of democracy, follows his first two
novels, Animal Candy and Pods of Bubbledumb: A Study in Mass Depravity.
Born and raised in an industrial suburb on the south edge of Chicago, James
lives with his wife Sue and four cats in Evansville, Indiana.
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