Title: It Came from the Lunchbox
Author: Eric M. Hamilton
Date: 2016
Publisher: Brief Conceits
Quote: "I pieced together what I was. Some discarded lunch, forgotten in the corner of a third grade classroom."
When Kamal is left alone in the classroom, the long-discarded lunch, which has grown a brain and learned English over the years, starts talking to him. At first it seems friendly. But it is trash. By the end of this short e-book Lunch is threatening to eat Kamal.
This story may aim over the heads of third grade readers with its 1980s jokes (Lunch learned English in the Eighties, and as a monster Lunch has things in common with the Eighties monsters in Gremlins) but it has series potential. Adults should love it. Lunch is alarming, but not beyond Kamal's ability to outwit.
Will something finally eat Lunch? Will something make a Sensitive New Age Monster of him? According to ericmhamilton.substack.com, the answers to those questions have yet to be written.
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