Peter Cherches, Brooklyn born and bred
Thomas Jefferson's Prostate
- Fourteen Peter Cherches poppers collected here along with Bonus
Material in the form of four more fabulous microfictions taken from
Peter's prior publications. Ah, Peter's prior publications - say that
fast three times. By the way, great news: you can read this short
electronic book by simply going to Thomas Jefferson's Prostate on Amazon and download free-of-charge from June 2-June 6. Also, always free-of-charge at any time with Kindle unlimited membership.
You'll be treated to the title piece where Peter is taking a piss and thinking he could write a book entitled Thomas Jefferson's Prostate.
With such a title, his book will surely be a runaway best-seller. But
wait. Should he write a book of history or fiction? Peter pictures
Thomas Jefferson ready to embark on a round of pleasure with one of his
house slaves, lovely sixteen-year-old Sally. But just then Jefferson
realizes he has to take a piss. Such decisions. Such drama. And where
does Jefferson take his piss, anyway? An outhouse? A chamber pot? And
how exactly does his prostate figure in? Peter comes to his own
realization, a perfect realization, that is, for a seasoned author of
minimalist fiction. And what is this realization? Vintage Peter
Cherches.
A Moot Point features a narrator, a guy by the
name of Stanley, who has to deal with his girlfriend, Cindy, her dead
dog, Victor, along with a taxidermist, Cindy's randy grandfather,
Morris, and a gefilte fish masquerading as a duck. The outcome, not to
mention the arc of plot, is anything but a moot point.
With Promising Young Composer Dies Bizarre Death,
readers will be given multiple opportunities to laugh out loud. The
composer in this microfiction is Andrew. Andrew's most remembered
composition is “Afternoon of an Electric Toothbrush,” and Andrew's death
will be the most remembered by the coroner since his death was as
bizarre as it gets. Can you imagine having your flesh expertly carved
away from your bone and then replaced on your frame? And to think,
Andrew was just at the point where he was receiving recognition for his
compositions. But, as we all know, and as Andrew's wife Judy certainly
knows, recognition doesn't pay the rent.
As I've noted before in
my other reviews of Peter Cherches' books, the humor we find will be
offbeat frequently combined with such as farce, satire, screwball humor,
eccentric humor, black humor, morbid humor, gallows humor, dry humor
and/or deadpan humor. One thing's for sure: you can't go wrong with
Peter's micros, since, with each of the fourteen Peter poppers peppering
the pages, less is always more.
Allow me to conclude my Peter
Cherches review with three Jacques Derrida quotes that came to mind
while I was reading and reflecting on this collection. Here they are:
“If
this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply
eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying
conviction.”
“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
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