The Crossing Fool

By Forest Dane Hanna

Rook Callahan is a school crossing guard with a stop sign, a yellow vest, a battered Toyota, and absolutely no ambition to save the world. Then a golden scorecard falls out of the sky and informs him that humanity has earned a D-plus. Apparently Heaven thinks he can help.

What begins as one man helping children cross the street becomes something much stranger. Rook joins forces with Polly Vagel, Ras Abu, Woody, and a growing collection of holy fools, misfits, musicians, and accidental troublemakers. Together they find themselves pushing back against Olioxen, a system of algorithms, feeds, and engineered habits built to turn fear, loneliness, outrage, and desire into one thing: keeping people online and coming back for more.

Their weapon is not power. It is interruption. A pause. A joke. A shared rhythm. A moment long enough for someone to choose again.

Funny, irreverent, hopeful, and deeply human, The Crossing Fool is a modern fable about attention, appetite, grace, second chances, and the stubborn possibility that the world may not need another hero nearly as much as it needs a few people willing to stop, look around, and help one another cross.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGG2TZ3D
• ISBN13: 9798194786251
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"