"I looked at Little Guy face down in the dirt with 200-plus pounds of correctional officer on his spine.
"Depending on dosage, a typical mescaline trip can last anywhere from eight to 12 hours.
"It was the American West on a Friday night."
In Cactus, correctional officer and ex-punk rocker Will Stephens works guarding prisoners who pick up trash on the side of the highway. One of them, a hardened inmate with a tattoo of the Black Flag logo right beneath his eye, seems oddly familiar, but Will can't quite place him.

Cactus

Literature & Fiction

Perkins, Nathaniel Kennon

Literary

Trident Business Partners

Bad luck follows travelers through the desert, Mormon missionaries contemplate the bodily implications of the internal combustion engine, and minimum wage workers look for a sense of meaning in art, country and western music, and domestic terrorism. A lemon tree produces an alarming number of fruit, but nobody can manage to have a threesome. Perkins's first collection of short stories vibrates at the chaotic frequency of the American West, a place where the states are square, the drives are long, and heartbreak is at least as much of a shit show as it is anywhere else.

The Way Cities Feel to Us Now: and other stories

Maudlin House

Wallop: A Novel

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Independently published

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