Anthony Michael Perri • 2nd October 2020 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 • 11th June 2020 Admitted You see, I’m of the belief that the stress will crack the mind. Play a bit with the chemistry, tinker here and there, maybe something will go, and then a doctor will officiate it. “This man is Crazy!” They’ll say. “Put him away, instantaneously! ...
Anthony Michael Perri • 17th April 2020 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 • 5th April 2020 La Mente Neutral “Si una persona tiene una mente neutral y sensible, cuando él tenga que experimentar un mal tiempo, podrá sentarse y decir: “¡Oh, Dios! ¡Maravilloso! ¿Qué quieres? ¿Un mal tiempo? No me importa”. Esa persona comunicará, hablará y sentirá que el...
Anthony Michael Perri • 6th January 2020 Dream Journal 2019 (ABRIDGED) February 17th I remember specifically one exchange; “You can’t put that in coffee!” “You can put anything in coffee.”
Anthony Michael Perri • 31st December 2019 The Bad Review I had multiple missed calls from him the following morning. I also received some texts with an overtly aggressive tone. When I responded, he called me, hung up on me, and called me back only to hang up on me once again. At this point I wasn’t sure...
Anthony Michael Perri • 26th December 2019 The All-Natural Man The All-Natural man awakes in the morning with the firm and pleasing belief that the world is there for his benefit. He spends the hours of the day in prosperous toil and the nights in depraved debauchery. The All-Natural Man knows that it’s not...
Anthony Michael Perri • 8th November 2019 The Fully Automatic Man “I have lived now for thousands of years. Generations of people have born and died. Times of war, times of peace. Times of bounty and many droughts. But the people are always the same. Hateful. Hateful of their neighbours, hateful of themselves,...
Anthony Michael Perri • 1st November 2019 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. Today I’m Lorne DeLancey, society schmoozer, and I play the part well enough.
Anthony Michael Perri • 9th October 2019 My Little Brother Just let him try to rebel against me, his big brother. He has never, nor would he ever dare. He loves me too much, and understands deep down in his dog heart that I love him too.
Anthony Michael Perri • 5th September 2019 Street-Walker I learned of us that don’t stop in the slow traffic I need to keep pounding pavement I need to keep moving forward and to go-go-go Street-Walker.
Anthony Michael Perri • 4th September 2019 The Eugenicist “What are the variables which contribute to the success or, shall we say, failureee -” the Eugenicist savours the word “- of a living organism? Easy, easy, yes, I know, I know, nature and nurture, nature and nurture…of course…yesss. Well, why...
Anthony Michael Perri • 2nd August 2019 Mr. Braunnfmann The Party had started when Mr. Braunnfmann arrived...
Anthony Michael Perri • 30th July 2019 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 • 30th July 2019 Heaven for Lovers - An Entropic Love Story in 12 Paragraphs In a moment all sense, all reason was lost. I knew it was coming. I knew it was wrong. I did nothing to stop it. I just observed the whole thing. She was mad with me. Of course. I was apologizing endlessly. I felt like a fool, but I didn’t...
Anthony Michael Perri • 30th July 2019 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 • 1st August 2019 The Casanova of Córdoba “I can’t imagine being interested enough in somebody to do something about it”...
Anthony Michael Perri • 1st August 2019 The Return of Prince Nazir Prince Nazir, his softly oiled hair resting on a silk pillow imported from some far reach of the kingdom, from the oriental lands. His guards in their spiked helmets roaming the halls, ever-vigilant to encounter any assassin and thwart any attempt on...
Anthony Michael Perri • 1st August 2019 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 felt...
Anthony Michael Perri • 9th October 2019 Does True Love Exist? I confess to my friend: I like your sibling.
