The award-winning author of “Gemini Tiger” takes on Barbie-Ken Dream Weddings, Teenaged Atomic Cheerleaders, and Jimmy Carter in this hilarious collection of stories, poems, and a few things in between!
“Forty Days” is a book of four full-length (over 5,000 words each) short stories, including “Ivy,” about a lonely woman in billings, Montana who has a one-night stand with a traveling comedian. (I won the James Jones Award in Short Fiction for this one!) The collection also includes “Forty Days,” “I,” and “Sallie Mae,” three darkly comedic stories about an absurdly narcissistic young redneck “kicking against the pricks” in a small midwestern town at the dawn of Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America.” Rounding out the collection are some previously published poems and short-shorts.
One critic has called me “a diabolical cross between Kurt Vonnegut, Barry Hannah, and Denis Johnson,” if that tells you anything. Although there is nothing explicitly X-rated about any of the pieces, I would definitely give some of them an R rating. Enjoy!
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