The Grateful Dead: A Badass Hippie Tale (Book 1 of Badass Hippie Tales)

By Leslie Smith Dow

Bridget is a harried caregiver who, up until now, has lived peacefully in her quiet hippie mountain town. When a coffin is delivered to her front door just a little too early, it unleashes an unbelievable chain of events that results in tragedy. Well, that's not what everyone thinks. The Grateful Dead combines sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and even a little good ole’ S & M. Mix with a healthy shot of death and destruction--and bingo! Before you can say “qualudes," things have gotten seriously out of hand.
Badass Hippie Tales are a kind of rock ’n’ roll homage to the bawdy humour of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Trailer Park Boys, an antidote to the smarmy feel-goodness of The Vinyl Cafe, and a one-fingered reminder to Rolling Stone magazine of gonzo journalism’s once-glorious past.
Forget the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and never mind those Dharma Bums. There's more mayhem in store from the Badass Bingo gang.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leslie Smith Dow
• Release date: Feb 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370218660

Leslie Smith Dow

As a rock 'n' roll journalist for several years, I interviewed and reviewed acts like Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, BB King, James Cotton, Supertramp, Axl Rose, Tragically Hip, Ria Mae, and many more. Somehow, the weirdness of writing concert reviews at 3 a.m. in an empty newsroom just never left me. That experience, combined with growing up in a very insular but sinful small town, and the strange events that occur during frequent travelling has left me permanently warped. My only outlet is the Badass Bingo gang, who figure prominently in the Badass Hippie Tales series. They have really got a hold on me! Check out Ricki Wilson's Indie Spotlight: http://rickiwilson.com/4/post/2017/03/indie-spotlight-on-badass-hippie-tales-by-leslie-smith-dow-lesliesmithdow.html I am the author of several print and e-books including the award-winning historical biographies Adele Hugo: La Miserable and Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond the King and I. Adele Hugo: La Miserable has recently been re-released as an e-book, with a new Afterword detailing the fascinating mystery of a painting which could link Adele and the founder of French Impressionist painting, Edouard Monet. Read Elissa Barnard's review of the re-issued e-edition of Adele Hugo in www.localxpress.ca at https://www.localxpress.ca/local-arts-and-life/adele-hugo-still-haunts-author-443323. See details of the new Afterword, featuring the mystery of Adele and French painter Edouard Manet at https://gooselane.com/collections/e-books/products/adele-hugo. I am also a beekeeper, farmer and owner of Red House Honey, which produces all-natural raw, kosher honey on the shores of the St. Lawrence River. AWARDS/JURIES: I received the Canadian Authors' Association Air Canada Award for Most Promising Canadian Author under 30 and the Dartmouth Writers’ Award for Non-Fiction. I was a finalist for the Ontario Trillium Award, the Ottawa Citizen and Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton writing awards. I have received grants for my writing from the Canada Council, the City of Ottawa and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton and I have been part of selection juries for writing grants and the on-line poetry magazine, ByWords.

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THE GRATEFUL DEAD

A Badass Hippie Tale

From the

Badass Hippie Tales Collection

Book 1

by Leslie Smith Dow

For Darrin and Bridget

© Leslie Smith Dow, 2016

Published on www.smashwords.com.

What’s it all about, Alfie?

Bridget is a harried caregiver who, up until now, has lived peacefully in her quiet hippie mountain town. When a coffin is delivered to her front door just a little too early, it unleashes an unbelievable chain of events that results in tragedy. Well, that's not what everyone thinks.  The Grateful Dead combines sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and even a little good ole’ S & M.  Mix with a healthy shot of death and destruction--and bingo! Before you can say qualudes, things have gotten seriously out of hand.

Badass Hippie Tales are a kind of rock ’n’ roll homage to the bawdy humour of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Trailer Park Boys, an antidote to the smarmy feel-goodness of The Vinyl Cafe, and a one-fingered reminder to Rolling Stone magazine of gonzo journalism’s once-glorious past.

Brace yourselves: we’re going on a politically incorrect Magic Carpet Ride, complete with forbidden sex in an airplane which is suspended inside a Beatles-friendly ashram, a near-lethal dose of