Don’t Smell the Floss: Part 1 Story Titles and Descriptions Installment 2
Part One: Kittied to Death: Love Stories for a Contemporary Audience (Stories 4-7)

Read about Stories 1-3 from Part 1 in this earlier post…

The new collection of short stories has been divided into 2 main parts, with 7 stories in each. Kittied to Death, Part 1, features seven stories that all attempt to answer questions about love. In this post, a brief synopsis of stories 4 through 7 in part one of the book.

4 A Brief History of the Tupperware Party
We all have things about ourselves that provide the necessary insecurity to keep us honest. Written entirely in second person, the main character in this story has a serious problem with his own body hair. To put it mildly, he’s a gorilla man. To make matters worse, his girlfriend is a tiny hairless female specimen of what is supposed to be the same species. When she invites her father over to the house one Sunday evening for dinner, Gorilla Man loses his cool and puts the entirety of his relationship with her in jeopardy. (more…)

Don’t Smell the Floss: Part 1 Story Titles & Descriptions

Part One: Kittied to Death: Love Stories for a Contemporary Audience

The new collection of short stories has been divided, somewhat appropriately, into 2 main parts, with 7 stories in each. Kittied to Death, Part 1, features seven stories that all attempt to answer questions about love.

Think about all of them as my response to Raymond Carver, whose suggestive story title, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love has undoubtedly inspired countless other works of fiction. Like pop songs that have overdosed on camera cleaning fluid and pills, these aren’t traditional ideas on the subject. I’ve taken a shot at describing the main ideas in each of the stories, to give you a better idea of what you’ll find in the book. (more…)