A Texas Tail

Jeff Guinn

• Publisher: TCU Press
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9780525558989, 9781250338259
• eBook ISBN: 9780875659442
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

"If you're from Texas, then you probably know someone like this."

 

Plunk Landy's dreams are the same as many middle-aged Texas men—he imagines the Dallas Cowboys finally ending their Super Bowl drought, enjoying the temperate love of a beautiful woman, owning a top-end Ford 150 truck and a gun, of course, and finding some way to become important. Instead, Plunk's life consists of a dead-end job, an addiction to televised sports and Fox News (what he thinks of as "dates with himself"), and no notoriety at all beyond a lingering reputation as an oddball in the Fort Worth suburb where he grew up and still lives. However, when Plunk stumbles across a unique Halloween costume in a local shop, he suddenly finds himself on a path to obtaining everything he ever yearned for, and maybe more. So far, Plunk Landy has never amounted to much, but as Tail Man, he intends to conquer his home state first and then blaze a proud Texas path across the rest of the country, especially through Woke snake pits like Los Angeles and New York City. 

 

Will Plunk's dreams come true, or will he learn, as have many before him, that the worst fate in life is almost getting everything you always wanted? That's the tale told here—or, perhaps, the tail.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Chapter 1.
• Chapter 2.
• Chapter 3.
• Chapter 4.
• Chapter 5.
• Chapter 6.
• Chapter 7.
• Chapter 8.
• Chapter 9.
• Chapter 10.
• Chapter 11.
• Chapter 12.
• Chapter 13.
• Chapter 14.
• Chapter 15.
• Chapter 16.
• Chapter 17.
• Chapter 18.
• Chapter 19.
• Chapter 20.
• Chapter 21.
• Chapter 22.
• Chapter 23.
• Chapter 24.
• Chapter 25.
• Chapter 26.
• Chapter 27.
• Chapter 28.
• Chapter 29.
• Chapter 30.
• Chapter 31.
• Chapter 32.
• Chapter 33.
• Chapter 34.
• Chapter 35.
• Chapter 36.
• Chapter 37.
• Chapter 38.
• Chapter 39.
• Chapter 40.
• Chapter 41.
• Chapter 42.
• Chapter 43.
• Chapter 44.
• Chapter 45.
• Chapter 46.
• Chapter 47.
• Chapter 48.
• Chapter 49.
• Chapter 50.
• Chapter 51.
• Chapter 52.
• Chapter 53.
• Chapter 54.
• Chapter 55.
• About the Author
• Back Cover