My story “What Were You Drinking?” is now available to be read on Medium:https://dkperlmutter.medium.com/what-were-you-drinking-d9194c3f58a3

Jefferson Ball

Alcohol drinking has consequences, but not usually this…

Jefferson Ball was drunk.

She was also, for good measure, scotched, tipsy, pickled, loaded, smashed, lit, hammered, jonesed, stoned, tippled, bashed, pixilated, looped, high as a Georgia pine, gassed, Harvey-wallbangered, flipped, up-set, just drinkin’, salted, hard-boiled, fried and [insert your own term…

My novel “Orthicon” has been shortlisted for Read.Freely’s Book of the Month honor. You can vote for it here: http://www.readfree.ly/help-choose-our-next-book-of-the-month/

My poem “Stop Talking!” is now available to be read on Medium: https://dkperlmutter.medium.com/stop-talking-bf6bc5a3b1d2

Poetry

I’ve heard everything you have to say- more than once.

You are not saying anything that someone else had said before- and better.

Holding or running for a public office

Nor operating a well-endowed multinational company

Nor benefitting from that company’s products to put your words out immediately

Does not…

My poem “Beloved Drawings” is now available to be read on Vocal: https://vocal.media/poets/beloved-drawings

My story “Chez Jefferson” is now available to be read on Medium: https://dkperlmutter.medium.com/chez-jefferson-2821af7045bd

Jefferson Ball

Jefferson Ball, brown furred and eyed, black nosed, clad in her customary black bikini and high boots despite the exclusive dress code of the establishment, the heroine of Earth and other planets and the strongest female dog in a universe almost exclusively consisting of canines, was convulsed with rage when…