The Ridiculous Horny Snail An Ode in Two Acts

The story originated with an ongoing prompt word exercise created by the Key West Writers Guild. The snails are original residents of Key West, and their adventures take them all over an island that advertises itself as home to One Human Family.

It is an adult and mature young adult illustrated love story, a bedtime story, in the form of a prose poem. The language is sophisticated, educative, humorous, and subtly nuanced, highlighting the ups and downs of a snail’s life cycle and whimsically touching upon the universality of human relationships and emotions. Snails are endemically hermaphroditic, responding to the demands of nature and are reflected in the return-to-storyline.

The Ukrainian born, and trained, Toronto resident Olha Tkachenko’s illustrations surround the beautiful language with a brilliant light. The Ridiculous Horny Snail is a delightful coffee table, talk-about book of life told through art and poetry.
This newly released book opens with a Storyteller’s Note how the author brought life to the words, and it ends with an explanation of The Ridiculously Colorful (and totally factual) Life Cycle of Gastropods.