Author: Maxx Chance

  • The Fortune Cookie Felony: A Funny Fortune Cookie Mystery

    The Fortune Cookie Felony: A Funny Fortune Cookie Mystery

    Max Mercer investigates fortune cookies that predict local burglaries. After eating a crucial clue and wrecking a printer with plum sauce, he sends a criminal crew toward the worst possible dinner reservation. Enjoy Chapter 5 of The Misfire: Chaos for Hire, where every plan backfires into success. Read more

  • Tulip Bubble Trouble: A Funny Amsterdam Superhero Adventure

    Tulip Bubble Trouble: A Funny Amsterdam Superhero Adventure

    Max Mercer only wants to return his rental bicycle. Instead, he derails Baron Bulb’s flower-auction scam and leads a fleet of stolen tulips straight to the police. Amsterdam has never seen a bicycle return quite like this. Read more

  • News at Eleven, Disaster at Ten: A Funny Superhero Television Interview

    News at Eleven, Disaster at Ten:  A Funny Superhero Television Interview

    Max Mercer only wants to read two sentences and thank the real heroes. Instead, his first live television interview becomes a battle against the Broadcaster’s mind-control signal—with malfunctioning cameras, a disastrous weather forecast, and the loudest apology in television history. Read more

  • Chapter 4: The Million-Dollar Mutt: A Funny Detective Story With a Dog

    Chapter 4: The Million-Dollar Mutt: A Funny Detective Story With a Dog

    A wealthy countess hires Max Mercer to recover her missing championship dog and its million-dollar collar. Instead, a pastrami-confused scent scanner leads him to the wrong bulldog, a crooked laundromat, and a fortune in counterfeit cash. Somehow, that is exactly where he needs to be. Read more

  • Chapter 4: The Loch Ness Mess

    Chapter 4: The Loch Ness Mess

    Max Mercer only wants to recover a professor’s lost sonar buoy. Instead, an inflatable bagpipe, a rented kilt, a flying haggis, and one deeply judgmental Highland cow expose a cybercriminal submarine in the middle of a Loch Ness festival parade. Read more

  • Chapter 12: The Villain Orientation Seminar

    Chapter 12: The Villain Orientation Seminar

    Max Mercer reports to the wrong office and accidentally joins Henchmen Local 404. One broken projector, a badly paired security clicker, and a very realistic fire drill later, every hostage is free—and an entire supervillain organization has marched straight into police custody. Read more

  • Chapter 11: “The Time I Accidentally Became King (For Like, an Hour)”

    Chapter 11: “The Time I Accidentally Became King (For Like, an Hour)”

    One minute I was wandering a foreign market, the next I was sitting on a golden throne in a goat-scented robe, holding a royal scepter, and apparently ruling a country I couldn’t pronounce. Turns out tripping over a ceremonial carpet can uncover a stash of stolen gold—and end a coup—before dessert. Not bad for a… Read more

  • Chapter 10: “Dinner and the Bleat of Diplomacy”

    Chapter 10: “Dinner and the Bleat of Diplomacy”

    When Sir Misfire is invited to a royal diplomatic feast, he does what any utterly unpredictable hero would do—he brings a goat in a bowtie as his plus-one. What follows is a night of spilled trout, shattered vases, and accidental espionage that somehow saves the day. Again. Read more

  • Chapter 9: “Sir Oops-a-Lot”

    Chapter 9: “Sir Oops-a-Lot”

    When Maxx Mercer takes a wrong turn at an international summit, he stumbles into royal regalia, a sword ceremony, and a diplomatic disaster that somehow ends in an official knighthood. It’s velvet pants, runaway horses, and international chaos in true Misfire fashion—because of course he gets knighted by accident. Read more

  • Chapter 8: “The Coffee Mug Incident”

    Chapter 8: “The Coffee Mug Incident”

    When Maxx Mercer accidentally activates a quantum coffee mug labeled “World’s End,” time fractures, alternate timelines collapse, and breakfast pastries achieve sentience. It’s chaos as usual for The Misfire—proof once again that every disaster he causes somehow saves the day. Read more