Very Bad Things
Because sometimes the worst days make the best stories.
About the book…
When life goes wrong, it rarely does so politely. In Very Bad Things, one small mistake sets off a chain of disasters that grows faster, funnier, and far more unmanageable than anyone could have imagined. Seraphim George delivers a sharp, darkly comic novel about ordinary people caught in extraordinary messes, where every bad choice makes perfect sense at the time, and the fallout is as hilarious as it is inevitable. Wickedly relatable and laugh-out-loud unpredictable, this is a story of just how quickly “a little problem” can turn into very, very bad things.
Very Bad Things
Meet Beatrice Goodie and Lester Filch, two ordinary people whose lives collide in the most extraordinary mess. Beatrice is tired of being overlooked, dismissed, and underestimated; Lester is convinced the world has it out for him. Separately, they stumble through small frustrations and quiet disappointments. Together, they set off a chain of disasters that no one could have predicted.
It all begins with Lester’s frantic dash through a storm, a wrong turn, and a fateful encounter. Beatrice, fueled by her own simmering frustrations, is drawn into his unraveling day. From missed chances to mistaken identities, from petty schemes to catastrophic consequences, the two find themselves spiraling into a comedy of errors that grows darker (and funnier) by the hour.
As their paths intertwine, Beatrice and Lester reveal more than bad timing and poor decisions: they show the fragile, absurd humanity at the center of us all. With every mishap, they become more relatable, more exasperating, and more impossible not to root for, even as the chaos builds.
Darkly comic and wickedly sharp, Very Bad Things is a novel about ordinary lives gone spectacularly wrong. Seraphim George blends biting humor with uncomfortable truth, holding up a mirror to the mistakes, longings, and missteps that make us human. For anyone who’s ever had a bad day and watched it get worse, this story is proof that sometimes the only thing left to do is laugh.
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“Because every silver lining has a dark cloud.”
— Lester Filch