Tales From the Mile High Gator

Tales From the Mile High Gator
By Tony Arnold
Welcome to the Gator. Order food or get out.
Somewhere between a Tiki bar and a fever dream sits The Mile High Gator — south Florida's most gloriously unhinged watering hole, and the beating, boozy heart of Tony Arnold's latest collection of tales. Here, bartenders argue cocktail-menu philosophy while pandemic rules get shouted across the room, tattooed waitress-wannabes chase spiritual enlightenment between shifts, and regulars swap legends of singing alligators, cryptid Skunk Apes, and reptilian conclaves buried in the swamp. Real life and tall tale blur until you can't tell which is which — and you stop caring.
Arnold writes Florida the way Florida actually sounds: profane, funny, a little dangerous, and utterly convinced its own weirdness is normal. Equal parts barroom confessional, cryptozoology folklore, and social satire, Tales From the Mile High Gator is a love letter to the dive bars, drifters, and true believers who make the Sunshine State the strangest place in America.
Pull up a stool. The gators are always thirsty.

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