Log of the Minnow: The Completely Unauthorized Fourth Season of Gilligan’s Island

By T.S. McLellan

After the cancellation of the top-rated prime time sitcom, authors around the world (even dead ones) started flooding producer Sherwood Schwartz' office with treatments to try to revoke the cancellation, to try to save Gilligan's Island! This is a compilation of 24 Gilligan-based short stories, echoing famous literature both contemporary and classic.Excerpt from "The Coconuts of Wrath":Gilligan pullis himself up on shore, wringing out his hat, dusting the sand off of his sodden clothing. He trudges wearily into the jungle. How long he journeys it is hard to say. Soon he comes across the Professor, who jumps out at him from behind a bush."Hey!" the Professor fairly shouts, "I know you from somewheres! Ain't you that first mate of the Skipper's, from over yonder?""Yep," Gilligan stoically replies. "I'm headed home."The Professor is more than curious and leaps in front of him. "I thought you was a prisoner of those head-hunters." This was half-question, half accusation. He peers into Gilligan's eyes and demands a response."Relax, would ya?" Gilligan snaps. "They let me go, all honest-like. I'm on the up and up." They walk together through the jungle for a spell, then Gilligan examines the Professor like a dog examining a steak. "Ain't you the Professor?"The Professor lets out a sigh and his shoulders slump from the burden the thin man just dropped on him. "Used to be," he mutters, "used to be a durn good 'un, too. But I lost my callin'. Was a time I used to make things out a coconuts you'd a thunk impossible, but I made 'em just the same. I was full of the science, and I just wanted to do good things with my science, but ever'time I done sumpthin', I jes' realized I warn't no scientist. I just wanted to do things to Ginger in the bushes. Finally, I jes' gave up. I ain't no scientist, an' I never was one."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520228996
• ISBN13: 9781520228990
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"