There is a straw – a girl, really – that I grasp at vainly. Very vainly. I stare in the mirror and think I’m beautiful as I grasp. She’s a straw that I know I’ll never wrap my lips around and suck on. She’s not that kind of straw anyway. She’s the kind that’s meant to be piled on top of other girls, or straws, on the back of the beast of burden until that final, glorious one that causes the entire spinal column of the poor animal to snap like a twig and send it crashing, screaming in agony, to the ground. And my question is: when did I become a fucking camel?
Michael’s first novel, The Zoo, was published in March, 2009 by Cacoethes Publishing House. His short story, “Kiss of Death,” was a winner of the 2008 Coffee House Fiction Contest and other short stories have been published in Fat City Review, The Uptown Observer and The Writer’s Eye literary journals. A staged reading of his first play Digging Up John Barrymore was presented by Dreamcatcher Entertainment in 2012.
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