Lee and the Monkey Idol: The Lee Babes Stories, #1

By Jay Bowers

Lee has lost his job!  Fired unjustly, he is also subject to persecution from his ex-boss.

In Chicago's Chinatown, he finds a small monkey idol that he thinks might help him...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Moos Road Publishing
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386899594

Jay Bowers

Jay Bowers, aka PaleoJay, is a long time blogger, podcaster, and author about the Paleo diet and lifestyle. He has a real expertise in what he calls Perfectly Paleo Exercise, which is natural, no weight exercise. Also, the Paleo green smoothie is the lynchpin of a good Ancestral diet, and PaleoJay has that one really figured out! Jay also is a fiction author, having just finished a fantasy novel called 'Afterlife.' Available right now on Amazon kindle, and in paperback- everywhere!  Check him out at: https://www.paleojay.com 

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To Jay and Jeff,

Lee and Roger,

Ron and Danny

Jim and Polly Ann! 

CHAPTER ONE

Lee Gets Fired

LEE couldn’t believe it.  12 years with the company, selling health insurance, and doing really well at it besides!

He had always been successful- when it came to selling, Lee could just do it.  He wasn’t sure himself why he was so able, when others around him floundered and left to find easier ways to make a living.  But he always had been really good at it, beyond even his own expectations.

But today- after dealing with his new boss, he knew that his long string of good luck was just about run out.  He’d had the same guy, the same boss when he first started with the firm- and he had hated his guts from the get-go!

Lee was from a laid-back, midwestern sort of family; one that just assumed that most folks were out to help one another.  Small town folk, even though his family had migrated from rural Wisconsin into metropolitan suburban Chicago before he was born- they still maintained their small town values and roots.  Lee valued that as well, but he had aspirations!

He had always wanted to make it big- to score a big win in the world.  And he had!  He had gotten sales job after sales job, and surpassed each one with the next.  But this last job, well, now he was in his late 50’s, he had just planned to coast on into retirement- raking in the green for his kids and his (unfortunate) mentally deranged ex-wife, as he did the best he could for his family.

"You suck- OLD SCHOOL!" said Neal, the nightmare boss from before, who had resurfaced in his life. 

What do you mean? asked Lee, trying to tamp down his rage.

Neal looked down at Lee, his huge gut straining against the desk he stood behind.  Lee was 6 feet, but this Neal was easily 6 and 1/2 feet tall, and his sheer girth (fatness) and size was something he used to intimidate people with.  Lee calmed himself down, since he knew in his heart-of-hearts that he could easily sink his fist into this huge tub of guts and he would collapse like the huge, inflated marshmallow man that he was-  but he restrained himself. 

You think you can coast along, making the big bucks, just ‘cause you’ve been here ‘X numbers of years’- you make me sick!  The sweat rolled down his fat face as Neal expostulated; he was working himself up into a frenzied rage, as he often did.  It was a technique, really- he had found that if he maddened himself enough, pretty much everyone would duck and cover- much as they had in grade school when they had watched those old nuclear bomb videos, and