Rich River Books

In this volume, the soldier ant, Dr Fixit, is hard at work as he keeps elongating his movie script where he, as the protagonist, is engrossed with his wife, Tracit, in reading the book written by the sage, Pa Tortoise. He hopes to grab nuggets of wisdom that could help him consolidate his gains as a massive and positive world-changer.  (THIS VOLUME IS AVAILABLE HERE AS AN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDCOVER.)

  The soldier ant keeps penning his movie script which has the potential of becoming a box-office hit after returning to the United States with his partner, the American female journalist, Lib Freegate, to witness her wedding to her childhood chum, Jim. During the event, the couple who have started working on the script to make a film out of it, actually show a clip (with permission of the scriptwriter) to their excited guests who can’t help but demand more. In the script proper, the main character, Dr Fixit, commander of the new-breed soldier ants on a world mission to purge humans and then insects and animals of their evil ways, is getting entangled in a secret romance with his second-in-command, Tracit. The rest of the troops, almost five million in number, seem to be getting whiff of it. It looks like the entire camp might soon explode. Is Commander Mendit One, the head of the information unit, and his team of conservatives’ threat to constituted authority (call it an attempted...

The arrival of Lib Freegate’s fiancé, Jim, upsets Dr Fixit, the soldier ant and Lib’s secret friend and business partner, and disrupts his conveniently penning more scenes of his film script and this nearly mars their relationships (between Lib and Dr Fixit; and between Lib and Jim). Dr Fixit gives a condition for him to stay and the female journalist, Lib, meets it by confronting Jim with the truth. Later, his behind-the-back mockery of his fiancée’s worship of a pet of a soldier ant triggers off a reaction (as the soldier ant replies to Jim in fluent English) which seems like an event in a storybook. Jim wonders if the talking soldier ant is a science-created bug. (THIS VOLUME IS AVAILABLE HERE AS AN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDCOVER.)  

Dr Fixit, back in his native continent, keeps writing his film script. In SCENE SIX, the troops break a core rule; in SEVEN, a commander reports two troops for smooching; in EIGHT, Dr Fixit preaches against romance in the camp but in NINE, his female second in command’s movements distract him and a stiff struggle ensues as he tries to banish the image from his mind. But the still small voice steals in to engage him in the theme of ‘love’ and he also points out the futility of Dr Fixit’s mission to save the world. The emotional and mental battle continues till SCENE THIRTEEN where the voice, quite jealous, transforms into a praying mantis and there is a violent physical fight between it and the soldier ant. (THIS VOLUME IS AVAILABLE HERE AS AN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDCOVER.)

'Dr Fixit (Africa's Longest Poem – Volume One' has a narrative in rhyme about a soldier ant which out of curiosity goes to play with a grasshopper but accidentally is flown from the jungle and ends up in a sugar factory and later with the sugar packs, is moved to a ship where he goes touring the world discreetly with the captain. He later abandons ship to explore the lives of humans more deeply and ends up partnering with an American female journalist and from books in her library, he starts practising how to write. With his love and talent for writing, he begins to write his script (after watching some epic films) and hopes to craft his fabulous box-office hit. With the journalist, he returns to his native continent and his dream too is gradually taking shape. In this volume is the draft of the first five scenes of 'Dr Fixit', the movie script about the good soldier ant who launches a massive mission to save a bad world. (THIS VOLUME - AS AN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HA...

  ‘GAMBLERS MAKE BETTER LOVERS (AND OTHER STORIES)’ is a collection of eight short stories. It opens with ‘RATS ON RAMPAGE’ where the protagonist jilted by his girlfriend ends up fighting with the rats in his shack. ‘DOLLARS FROM LIBERIA’ follows – a servant runs away with his master’s suitcase but those benefiting from the ill-gotten wealth seem to end up in ill health or death. ‘THE PROPHETS’ depicts the chaos inflicted on gullible Christian families who would swallow hook, line and sinker the ‘prophecies’ of bogus ‘men of God’. ‘GAMBLERS MAKE BETTER LOVERS’ is the title story and portrays the pathetic situation of a young lady inflicted with a severe health problem who is afraid to seek expert medical help for fear of stigmatization. ‘A GIRL’S MIND (THE OMITTED CHAPTERS)’ is a tale of two lovebirds, Eddy and Etido, who (with the backdrop of chaos on campuses and in the larger society) continue to keep the lantern of their love burning. Eddy is seen making a superhuman effort (un...

  ‘3 TALES ABOUT TRUTH’ is a collection of three short novels: ‘A Girl’s Mind’, ‘What the Nanny Goat Told Her Kids’ and ‘The Many Faces of Truth’. ‘A Girl’s Mind’ is a tale which centres around two college students, Eddy (a budding writer) and Etido, who use their relationship to explore the theme of love and lust; ‘What the Nanny Goat Told Her Kids’ is a strange mixture of human and animal stories: Grace, the nanny goat, feels slighted by Mrs Ransom’s remark and so urges her two kids to get ready for a revolution. When the uprising fails, Grace tells her kids to not only learn to bark but bite like Muscle and Bone, the Ransom’s dogs, which recently stop some bandits from robbing the Ransom’s home. Meanwhile, Mr Ransom and a host of villagers who start sleeping like millionaires because of the promised goodies from ‘Western countries’ discover late the ‘concerned fellows’ who bring the good news, making them drink bitter concoctions to enable them to stay in good health to grab the...