Stories

PUBLISHED WORK:

“Infinity Has Teeth,” published in Quarterly West, Winter 2011 (Issue 73)

“Blood Sausage,” published in The Saturday Evening Post, October 14, 2016

IN PROGRESS:

An excerpt from The Llama Man, a novel:

To some, the Llama Man was a side windin’, rootin’ tootin’, gummy bear-chewin’ bronco.  To others, he was a reader of cobwebs, a purveyor of myth, Prometheus with a chainsaw.  A serious man, he aspired to live his life like the cherry, cherry, cherry of a slot machine, the log in a matchbox, the hiked up skirt of a Catholic schoolgirl.

And for the finale, it is said he died by the lethal thighs of a Bond girl, swallowed whole while tickling a crocodile’s armpit, by the chokehold of Elvis as he whispered, “No one must know.” As he was being sucked backwards into the heavens by the seat of his pants, his departing words were, “Sayonara, life-limited cabbageheads!”

2 thoughts on “Stories

  1. Hey Perry- It’s your elementary school Seminar teacher, Rick Leighton, checking in on one of my favorite students from the past. You always were a great writer- I’d love to hear from you about your life since 5th grade!

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