The Ballad of King Norris the Hopeless: A Rotten Tale

By Marc Garner

Once Norris Ronson,

Did dream to be king,

To live like a Pharaoh,

And hark as they sing.

But scruffy and useless,

With a wit that was slow,

How he would do it,

He didn't quite know...

Then sat in his bedroom,

He had an idea,

- The jape of the month,

The wheeze of the year!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Shadowlands Media
• Release date: Apr 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9781919629469

Marc Garner

Marc Garner is a writer and critical thinker with a life-long fascination with the nature of time, and a strongly-held conviction that our greatest stories are those which are true. "Why turn to fiction when the truth is so much more mesmerising than anything we could possibly hope to make up?".

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This is a fictional tale of incompetence and the abuse of power, involving fictional characters created by the author. Any perceived similarities or likenesses to persons or events relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are purely incidental.

Copyright © 2023 Marc Garner

All rights reserved.

The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

First edition, April 2023

Cover design by Marc Garner, composited (with thanks) of imagery by koya979, Real Illusion, and Shutterstock.com

ISBN 978-1-9196294-6-9 (ebook)

Published by Shadowlands Media

www.shadowlandsmedia.co.uk

For everyone, everywhere,

labouring under the leadership of fools.

The Ballad of King Norris

The Hopeless