David Macpherson

A collection of dumb things the writer texted to his friend, Gary. Gary did not listen to any of these suggestions. You probably did not even read them. That's Gary for you. It is a dust devil of absurdist ideas and configurations. This could be the kind of book you need to read if you are waiting for the volcano to erupt. Author Jeffrey Campbell read some of this book and gave this blurb that's good enough to be on the cover, "Yeah. I think this...

How is the behavior plan Santa Claus wrote? To be honest. It can deal with a little bit of work. But don't worry, we have that covered. We have trained professionals in Applied Behavior Analysis to make it perfect. This small collection of essays deals with Santa, but also ABA Band names, ABA themed children's books and the precarious ways BCBAs eat. You should pick this up, because BCBAs need to be given the chance to laugh, and be laughed at....

The Floor of Heaven is just 257 steps to get to.Something great must be at the Floor of Heaven and you should jump onto the first step and start the climb for salvation.Like all books about faith, this is a counting book. We count up all 257 steps.Surprising things happen on the way to the Floor of Heaven. Will they make sense? Who knows? I mean, does heaven make sense.Take the steps and find out. The only way to reach paradise is by climbing. And...

If you have a couple hundred dollars and two hours at a comics expo, what will you get? That's the question for this little report from the 2023 Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo. David went and bought a ton of comics. And now he has rested and spread it on the floor before him and will tell you about what he got and why. Like any comic geek, he will go on tangents that will take days to get back from. But that's what a comic can be, a tangent...

How entertaining is it to open a box of random comics? We are not sure, but we are willing to let David find out. He has purchased a Halloween themed mystery box of 11 comics. Will he get the grand prize? Will he find comics he wants? Why does anyone want to share unboxing comics? All questions that could be hidden in the box with the comics. Come along as David discovers what books he received and what thoughts and associations they bring to mind....

What you have here is a collection of fifty brief, silly-ass stories. None of them are long, so you don't have to suffer through one for pages and pages if you don't dig it. For this blurb, we include a bonus story. You can read it and see if you want to pick up this book and read the others. It's up to you. It's always up to you. Here is the free story we have given to you just because we like your face. "Surfing "One of the difficult parts of surfing...

Can action figures give you happiness? There are many toy manufacturers who certainly hope they do. They made commercials to explain how you can play with them and what joy you should find in these Barbies and G.I Joe. This brief book primarily looks at the commercials for the toy playsets and the extra characters. This is a joyful look at the way the commercials tried to inform our desire and the way we play.

How do we wrap up the life of a loved dog in 40 pages? Well. We can't. Come on. Love and grief do not fit easily onto a page. This is a translation of that love, that grief. David's dog passed on November 15th, 2023 and he began this book that evening. What you see is the unstructured testament of a friendship between a dog and a family. It moves from when Fitzy was adopted to when he passed away at the age of 15. He was a good dog. This little...

A hodgepodgeA miscellany. A jumble.A mishmash.A patchwork.More stuff about things.This book is a collection of pieces I had hanging around the harddrive with no place to go. They are random flash fiction and experimental work. A few of them are series of works that never accumulated enough to make an entire book out of. So we have inanimate fables. We have tales of a crazed short order cook. There are Greek Myths retold by a barfly. And a bunch of...

The Long Weekend Review is a monthly e-zine that allows the writer to do whatever they want, as long as it is written in three days. This month's edition is from Jeff Campbell. Jeff writes this of issue seven. "When I started writing 'A Whole Lot of Nothing' I expected it would be a rather head-y series of reflections that mostly focused on my strange relationship with the concept of nothingness and emptiness that I have cultivated over...