David MacPherson

How did the world die? It certainly did not survive. It has been many years since things perished. But how? The young boys want to know. They ask the Grayling, the old man who was there during the time of the death of the world. He tells the tale. The tale of how the world died. It might have to do with over affectionate rodents. It might have to do with alien invasions or zombies or addictive grinders at a food truck. There are so many ways that...

Can you write an entire book as one text a day? Sure. You are writing to one audience member at a time. You can create interesting thing. You can push yourself as a writer in this method. David Macpherson did six of these at once. He wrote to six different people, pieces of six different books a day. This is his strange, disjointed look at the process of sending a book out to an audience of one. It is an odd book, but it is an odd way to write...

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.

"Writing is easy. You just open up a vein and bleed on the page.""I hate writing. I love having written." These are just two quotes that most writers know. There are a bunch of them. They seem to grow up around us like mushrooms. Every writer has a witty comment about writing. It must be a requirement for writing. You must write a book and you have to put out clever bon mots. If you can't be funny about writing, can you even be considered a writer....

About the Book What are the books that make up your history? For every reader, there are the books that linger. There are books that are more than just entertainment. They mean something. David Macpherson, a reader and a writer, has written about 100 books and how they matter to him. For every year from 1923 to 1922, he has chosen a book. There are tales to tell. There are things to remember and discover. What are your books that fit on your century...