What happens when a monkey gets hold of a Sharpie—and an entire jungle becomes too frightened to take it away?

Don the Orangutan is back in power, armed with a permanent marker, a fragile ego, and an endless supply of executive orders. Surrounded by loyal sycophants who praise his every idea, he sets out to remake the jungle in his own magnificent image.

Truth is whatever Don writes down. Laws are obstacles to be crossed out. Failure is simply renamed “victory.” And anyone who disagrees is branded an enemy.

While Don builds monuments to himself, rewards unquestioning loyalty, and declares each new disaster a historic success, ordinary animals begin paying the price. Families are torn apart. Villages lose their homes and clean water. Fear spreads through the jungle as masked agents drag away animals who have lived there peacefully for years.

Then Harriet the Duck refuses to remain silent.

She is not a politician, a revolutionary, or anyone’s chosen hero. She is simply a mother who recognizes injustice—and decides to speak. Her quiet courage begins awakening a jungle that has forgotten its own power.

Don has survived scandals, incompetence, and even reality itself. But can he survive one ordinary duck telling the truth?

A Monkey with a Sharpie: An Era of Sycophants is a sharp, fearless, and darkly funny novella about authoritarian power, blind loyalty, manufactured truth, and the courage required to resist them. Beneath its outrageous executive orders, nervous advisers, absurd press conferences, and political chaos lies a deeply human story about compassion, conscience, and the danger of surrendering our voices.

The characters may be animals.

The jungle may be fictional.

But everything else might feel disturbingly familiar.

Enter the jungle—then decide for yourself who is truly behaving like an animal.