This one is for Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) – King of Zen Comedy Poet Lit.
“Rommel Drives On Into Egypt” opened my eyes to a whole new world of poetic possibilities.
“In Watermelon Sugar” showed me how the lines of genre, literature, prose and poetry are only small-minded categorizations in a vast Universe of storytelling.
Go find his books and let him tear away the thick black curtain of redundancy that keeps you from seeing the true nature of literature.
Now that you’ve seen the worst I can come up with in that last post, let’s see just how far I’ve come, shall we?
The following is a short story about love, life and other catastrophes. I am calling it TREMULOUS for the time being, until a better title presents itself. Maybe y’all can help me with the title if you have something better…
Anyhoo… Check it out, leave me some notes, help me make it better so that I can feed the Baby and put some new hotpants on the Wife…
Here’s a really bad example of a kid who knows nothing thinking he knows everything…
This is the first 5 or 6 pages of my first ‘novel’ which was tentatively titled Recollections of Huckleberrys Passed . It was the fictionalized memoir of my friends and I in our first years of University. It gets much much better as it goes along, but keep in mind, even this beginning was rewritten 10 or 15 times and hasn’t been touched in close to a decade.
I include it here for the sake of completism, and so you can all have a good laugh at my expense.
Be kind.
Continue reading Huckleberry! – An excerpt from my 1st ridiculous novel!
Here’s another “Short Story”, more of what I’d call a ‘Brautigan’, as it is in the short, poetic-speak style of Richard Brautigan’s short work. This is another one from back in the vaults, so cut me a little slack in the content department – though I will say it was written looong before PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN or the current Pirate Fad making the rounds.
Check it out.
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