Böcker av Chris Erickson

“Excuse me,” she said at one point. “What do you think of coming to Henrytown?” She didn’t ask about the site itself. To ask about the site was to ask how you did on the tour part; to ask about Henrytown was to leave yourself out of it.Tube-boobed stump grinder Marty-Neil Willard’s daytime viewing of adult videotapes is interrupted by a fragrant, red-eyed spaceman. Newspaperman Carlier Johnson’s hair system comes off and blows down the pavement. Amber Kusnetsov has gone missing. A deadly explosion at Polk Plastics sends plumes of acrid smoke into the community. Yetunde’s soaring hairdo scrapes the headliner of her Metro. Lady Button collects firewood with some nice-sized clear dildos strapped on. Gloria-half-of-something the wampus cat murders Mandu Fam Lam Bartlum behind the Park Tavern. Old Lookie floats slowly over the earth on his adult tricycle. John Dinger the Large is on his way to Niantic to kill trolls!Join Henrytown’s affable, unforgettable narrator as he weaves these and other interconnected vignettes that explore myth & mundanity, presence & absence, and the many systems that power life in this strange and wonderful American village.