Or Something Like That is a collection of short stories that are off-kilter & humorous, sometimes dark, sometimes dreamlike & odd, always going somewhere unexpected.
A stalker comes into... More > your house while you sleep & does your dishes & your taxes because he loves you.
One aggravated dog and a belligerently drunken ghost wage war over the living room couch.
A man deals with his girlfriends cat, who just so happens to be a blood muzzled lion.
Want to learn how to use a Tiger Tank to rob a bank to fund your vacation to Fiji?
What will you do when Aunt Joan calls up on a broken cellphone & gives you the winning lottery numbers from beyond the grave?
Meet two donuts who fall in love and try to avoid the big hands.
Come on a date to a supper club where the massive speaker cabinets might make your head explode when the band takes the stage.
This book is a wild ride. 40 stories that will surprise, entertain and probably do your taxes for you while you sleep.< Less
A collection of short fiction. Things that happened to me, that I wrote down after telling the real stories so many times I can't hardly remember what parts are real and what parts are just things... More > that came back to me in a game of telephone through dreams and conversations and recollections. Stories about youth and being full to the brim with life. About walking around in the streets at dawn, trying to figure out where you parked your car, waking up next to a wolf foaming at the mouth, avoiding the police, swimming in the ocean while the sky explodes. It's about finding absolute beauty and figuring out how to ignore ugliness, even your own.< Less
Icy Doom Falls all over a small town in New Jersey. The Concrete Dinosaur gets painted Gold. Everybody wants to escape their own life. People are in love. People fall out of love. Dogs talk to... More > ghosts. It is a novel told through first person narration from the major characters of the work. Point of view shifts between father and son, boyfriends, girlfriends, police officer and criminal to tell the story of one winter and the things that go wrong, are set right and don't matter regardless.< Less
A man arrives in town and immediately wonders if his home in the junkyard tire pile was better. Oh well, no turning back now. He decides to do what anybody would do, squat after hours in a store... More > called "Mattress Mayhem" posing as a mattress tester. Get Involved with the wife of a Brazilian kick boxing champion. Become the captain of a house yacht with a hole in the hull bigger than most people's dreams. When all of this becomes tiresome he haphazardly starts a cult that may or may not destroy the entire town. Strip Mall America the Beautiful.< Less
A man arrives in town and immediately wonders if his home in the junkyard tire pile was better. Oh well, no turning back now. He decides to do what anybody would do, squat after hours in a store... More > called "Mattress Mayhem" posing as a mattress tester. Get Involved with the wife of a Brazilian kick boxing champion. Become the captain of a house yacht with a hole in the hull bigger than most people's dreams. When all of this becomes tiresome he haphazardly starts a cult that may or may not destroy the entire town. Strip Mall America the Beautiful.< Less
Icy Doom Falls all over a small town in New Jersey. The Concrete Dinosaur gets painted Gold. Everybody wants to escape their own life. People are in love. People fall out of love. Dogs talk to... More > ghosts. It is a novel told through first person narration from the major characters of the work. Point of view shifts between father and son, boyfriends, girlfriends, police officer and criminal to tell the story of one winter and the things that go wrong, are set right and don't matter regardless.< Less
A collection of short fiction. Things that happened to me, that I wrote down after telling the real stories so many times I can't hardly remember what parts are real and what parts are just things... More > that came back to me in a game of telephone through dreams and conversations and recollections. Stories about youth and being full to the brim with life. About walking around in the streets at dawn, trying to figure out where you parked your car, waking up next to a wolf foaming at the mouth, avoiding the police, swimming in the ocean while the sky explodes. It's about finding absolute beauty and figuring out how to ignore ugliness, even your own.< Less
His stories & novels are darkly humorous, oddly dream-like. Off-kilter & personal, sometimes just plain odd, always sharp, always going somewhere unexpected and often told in the first person as if they were a memoir.
Wry. Funny. Sad one second, exuberant the next. You'll recognize the voice of the writing right away, as if you are being led to a corner at a party and someone is telling you the best story of their unique and strange lifetime, all while you stand there nodding and taking it all in. Forgetting all about the game of darts & the beer pong happening somewhere in the other rooms.
Fans of Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, John Steinbeck, Amy Hemple and Richard Brautigan will find common elements and themes in this writing & its take on modern life inside the space and time of our current lifetimes. Get ready to laugh and careen out of control. It will be feral, wild & beautiful.
These books will make you late for your appointments
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