David Macpherson: 10 books

David Macpherson drives through Orange, Massachusetts and sees it has changed. It is no longer a sleepy Central Mass town. It is now Castle Rock, Maine. Castle Rock from the Stephen King books. A new Castle Rock television show is being filmed in town and many of the store fronts have new signs. Join...

Everyone has a favorite bookstore. It might be that it is wonderfully large, or small, or affordable. Whatever it is, it is your bookstore. The place you find what you want. It is the place you find what you need. In this collection of 40 prose poems, David Macpherson introduces you to other...

Orphan Store Signs are signs for businesses that are gone, no longer there. The signs remain, the business does not. Sometimes the Orphan Store Signs are above other businesses. There is a story waiting for you just by walking downtown. In the Summer of 2018, David Macpherson recorded all the...

Gods don’t start with names. They have to earn them. There is schooling and testing and good luck. Gods want names. In the institute that teachers would be gods of love, there is tremendous competition. The gods sit about studying. They complain about their teachers. They tell tales. Everyone tells tales. Even those without names.

Every fella needs a joint to sit down and have a beer at. The bar, O. Onions, caters to thirsty folk who also can bring the dead back to life. Just because they are reanimators doesn’t mean they don’t get thirsty.The FlipSwitch happened: where some people got some powers. That created telepaths,...

Polly Mintslab has mad adventures. She does something for some agency somewhere. She fights villains and does her laundry. She drinks with her friend, and former nemesis, Lord Quicksand at the bar Iago's Pillow. Polly is always ready to fight the good fight and also to nap the good nap. Come...

Howie Dunwich has the best radio program in Stanwich, Massachusetts. Every week, in the wee hours, he lets his listeners know what incredible things are present in their little ocean town. In this transcript of one of his typical programs, he tells of the opportunity of being a reverse timeshare,...

As kids, Mikey and Danny went to the movies. They loved the movies. The crazier, the better. They saw so many movies back in the 1980s, it is hard to remember them all. Now, Dan visits Mike on his deathbed. They sit and try to remember the movies they saw way back when. Maybe they don't remember...

Bad writing doesn’t just happen. It takes time and effort. Bad writing is not something anyone can do. It requires a dedicated student to master the wrong turns and poor decisions that are necessary to excel in lousy work. There are many books and workshops that offer good writing advice....

The Art of Living in Cities is an essay about cities and how people find the way to live in them. It