AMP Reading Club ©

Anthony Michael Perri • 2nd October 2021

I/me

Recently, I went through the process of applying to an art grant. Despite several proclamations on the importance of inclusion posted throughout the grant’s website, both representatives of the judging committee were clearly members of the LGBTQ...

Anthony Michael Perri • 17th September 2021

AMP.USB series.3 ©

AMP.USB series.3 © is the third release in a project promoting the ownership and preservation of art. Specifically, the purpose of this project is to highlight a curated collection of media that is unavailable on and outside of the algorithms of...

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

The Fourth Feeling From Mutual

When John Offengetiz awoke in the morning he felt horrible. Over the course of 48 hours he got much, much worse until he got much, much better.

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

Admitted

You see, what I’m trying to do is get myself admitted into a mental institution.

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

The Colombia Report

There’s a bum that wanders around the area near my metro stop. Tall light skinned fellow with dirty dreads. On each finger he has a ring fashioned out of barbed wire or old copper or the like, twisted round the digit tightly and many times, like a...

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

La Mente Neutral

¿Quién puede decir si el tiempo donde nos encontramos es un santo o un ladrón? No hay mal que por bien no venga, se dice. La única pregunta que me preocupa es; ¿Si no hay mal que por bien no venga, también estamos obligados a decir que no hay bien...

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

GOVERNMENT MAN

Official business. Strictly confidential. Must keep hush-hush, on a need-to-know basis. I’m what you’d call a Government Man, you see. 5 passports in a safety deposit box.

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

The Fully Automatic Man

Or they would prefer that automation exist in some distant region, some place unreachable and invisible from whence descends a benevolent automatic providence.

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

The Construction Boys

They must get up early. The Construction Boys. To make the most of the day. The parables usually tell us that someone gets their blessing in the middle of work. That’s when God goes down to them, to give them their duty.

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

Heaven for Lovers - An Entropic Love Story in 12 Paragraphs

What does heaven for lovers look like? ¿Como es el cielo para los amantes?

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

The Mistrustful Man of Málaga

Recently, the Polack, who was still young enough to be considered a bachelor, had met a young and pretty woman. This woman told the Polack that she was from France, from a family of jewellers, and that back home, in her town, whose name the Polack...

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

The Return of Prince Nazir

“I do not like looking in mirrors, I do not like being reminded of my humanity. That I have a face as hideous as the rest of these dirty creatures that mill about in the streets, doing ugly things, beneath me.”

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

The Bat

...And down he descended many depths, deep in the hollow of the earth, a gaping dark cavernous ruin, he descended. And as the light faded the tunnel narrowed, until at last he was forced to find his way with touch and foot alone. Here his hand...

Anthony Michael Perri • 31st August 2021

The Nature of Standing

To take a stance is to stand up.