Caustic Defenses for Unwelcome Conversation
Volume 4 of IPP's Quarterstaff Series

We've all been there.

Exhausted, busy, or both... strapped into an undersized airline seat or camped at a coffee shop... and "that guy" (or gal) arrives. The bubbly sorority-girl-forever... the disgruntled MAGAt... the morose Ted Striker wannabe... or magnitudes worse than any of these, the suave fellow who "just wants to get to know you."

A natural target by virtue of physical appearance, raw animal charm, or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, that familiar sense of impending doom floods your gut. Cornered and logistically vulnerable, you avoid eye contact - exercising a William H. Macy façade of befuddled concentration on anything in close proximity. These subtleties having blown right past "Pat," an utterly inane and soul-depleting conversation ensues.

Yes, you've been there. Trapped like a timeshare seminar victim, inwardly recoiling until it hurts. But it doesn't have to be that way - at least not anymore.

Introducing the Intrusion Protection Press's Quarterstaff series. Designed for the emphatically independent social participant, each Quarterstaff volume provides a Swiss Army Knife's worth of pest repellent options:

• Front cover titles painting you in the worst possible light repulse the amateur gadfly.
• Chapter headers punctuating your interest in uncomfortable or unseemly topics fend off the moderately assertive nuisance.
• Strategically crafted, large-type "flash" messages leave distant pursuers with crystal-clear fair warning.
• A tool of last resort for the close-and-clingy vexation, back cover text makes a final plea for solitude.

>But that's not all: Between the off-putting covers and playful chapter headings lie genuine, unadulterated folk and fairy tale goodness! Yes, three dozen classic stories to deepen your distraction, including...

The Flayed Old Lady
The Robber Bridegroom
The Dead Mother
The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf
Ashputtel
And many, many more!

Raise a glass to peace, tranquility, and happy reading!

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