AMP Reading Club ©

Anthony Michael Perri • 19th February 2021

AMP.USB series.1 "THE ESSAYS"

AMP.USB series.1 © is the first 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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

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 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...