A message in a bottle...the holy grail of nautical lore. A donkey in a bottle...not so much. Until now. Donkey in a Bottle is a maritime tropical adventure story of a message in a bottle that floats in "unchartered and timeless" waters-with one unique feature. The message does not arrive in the form of a note. It's delivered in the form of a donkey named Dibs. Jackstone Dibs, PhD (Pretty Handsome Donkey), finds himself in the precarious predicament of being permanently cast into a bottle via the spell of a rum-drunk voodoo witch. Along with his companion-a one-eyed, Jamaican-speaking parrot-Dibs floats aimlessly from island to island. He soon realizes he has an unusual gift of hearing messages within the island breezes, messages that he subsequently delivers to those who come upon his bottle. Through these messages, Dibs and his parrot help the bottle finders rid themselves of the vices that have shackled their souls. This humorous, delightfully bawdy yet sentimental, wise-ass story is told through comic verse and is brought forth in a series of short-story volumes. In this first volume, the beginning of the Dibs's journey unfolds. He learns of his "gift" (fate); finds the means to "sail the glass"; befriends a Renaissance jouster with a puny stick; helps a mad scientist create the perfect margarita; and brings joy to three tiki gods whose lives could best be described as "just an old fad with a fade."