The Cattercorns of Cloudville Arizona
He lost his job running phone scams. His roommate lost touch with reality. Together, they went looking for a floating city.
Kermit used to have a steady income—if you don’t count the part where it came from scamming strangers over the phone.
Then the call center got raided.
Now broke, unemployed, and out of options, he’s stuck with Scott—his roommate and self-proclaimed treasure hunter whose ideas are either genius or legally actionable.
Scott has a new plan: find Cloudville, Arizona. A legendary town said to appear in the mountains and drift among the clouds, full of impossible riches and questionable reality.
Most people think it’s a myth.
Scott thinks it’s a map.
And Kermit doesn’t have anything better to do.
What follows is a road trip into the absurd, where nothing behaves correctly, legends might be real, and survival is mostly optional.
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Kermit had a career, an apartment, and a steady stream of income—provided you don't count the fact that he earned it by helping scam people over the phone.
Then the police raided the call center.
Broke, unemployed, and rapidly running out of options, Kermit turns to the only person willing to help him: his roommate Scott, a self-proclaimed professional treasure hunter whose life choices somehow make Kermit's look responsible.
Scott has a lead on a legendary treasure hidden within the lost town of Cloudville, Arizona—a mythical settlement said to rise from the mountains and drift among the clouds. Most people think the stories are nonsense.
Scott thinks they're directions.
With nothing left to lose, Kermit joins him on a journey across the American Southwest in search of impossible riches. But the road to Cloudville is filled with dangers, mysteries, and discoveries that defy logic.
Some legends are too strange to be true.
Others are much stranger.
The Cattercorns of Cloudville Arizona is a bizarre adventure packed with treasure hunting, unexpected dangers, and a healthy disregard for reality.
Legend says that the Grabull tribe plead to the gods to help them protect their treasure. In turn they were transformed into vicious creatures that fed on human flesh.
Many would come for the treasure but few would make the trek to the mysterious mountain where they must traverse through a tornado on the way to the city in the sky, Cloudville.
The treasure seekers would be forced to hide in the clouds with their flesh torn bodies, living in agony until one day a frog that could stand on two legs would bring them all back down to the world below where they all used to live.
Excerpt from How to Live Without Legs
Moving forward with no legs, only uppers, is not the terrible curse it feels right now:
Start putting weight on your uppers. Build callouses and muscles you will need to get around. See how long you can put weight on before it is too much to handle.
All Hail the Standing Frog!
A broke ex-scammer and his unhinged roommate go on a surreal road trip through the Southwest to find a legendary floating town hidden in the clouds.
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