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David Wallace Fleming

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http://www.goodreads.com/DavidWallaceFleming

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in Council Bluffs, Iowa, The United States

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male

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http://www.davidwallacefleming.com

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Literature & Fiction, Bizarro, Humor

influences

Kurt Vonnegut, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac

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April 2011

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David writes a little of everything, but mostly satire and humor. He's been writing fiction for practically his entire life. He writes the kind of stories that he'd like to see written and wants to give readers something special and reflective of the exciting times in which we live.

His short stories have appeared in Out of the Gutter, Escape Velocity and the Bizarro Press. Check out his funny poems at davidwallacefleming.com

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David Wallace Fleming's Blog: Indie Literary

A Bizarro Fiction Audiobook on Audible

I’m pleased to announce that, after years of waiting and hoping, the bizarro fiction collection of short stories, Not from Concentrate, is finally available on Audible.com!

This project has been a labor of love for me since I first decided to move down to Austin and record a collection of short stories that I felt were appropriately reflective of the times in which we live (and record them out o...

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Average rating: 3.85 · 85 ratings · 49 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors

	Growing up Wired 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With and Without Class 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Manhood 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girl Fistfights Boy 4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not from Concentrate 4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	About Desire 2.14 of 5 stars 2.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tall Tales with Short Cocks Vol. 2 by Danger Slater (Goodreads Author), Vincent W. Sakowski, Patrick D'Orazio (Goodreads Author) 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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David Fleming said: "This is a collection about taking artistic risks. Fans of the periodical “Out of the Gutter,” edited by Matt Louis, will likely also enjoy the Tall Tales with Short Cocks books.

It seems that over half a century since Gertrude Stein warned Hemingway...more This is a collection about taking artistic risks. Fans of the periodical “Out of the Gutter,” edited by Matt Louis, will likely also enjoy the Tall Tales with Short Cocks books.

It seems that over half a century since Gertrude Stein warned Hemingway “you mustn’t write anything that is inaccroachable,” the emerging field of bizarro literature is specializing in ignoring this very advice. I’m pretty sure Miss Stein would find most of the contents of Tall Tales with Short Cocks “inaccroachable,” (meaning, even if it’s good, it will offend too many people so it must not be written.)

But time marches on! Writers have written about everything else countless times. Want a story about love? Go to the nearest library and the librarian can recommend hundreds of books. Want a story about telepathically projecting yourself into an alien and not realizing what gender you are while mid-coitus? Where do you turn? Tall Tales with Short Cocks, Volume III, that’s where!

I would recommend this collection to those who have a strong sense of irony, a strong gag reflex, and a sense of adventure. Keep in mind, these are not your typical short stories. These aren’t the types of themes, topics and characters that would ever be allowed in a college literary journal. And that’s just all the more reason why books like this need to exist.

Appraising a collection as diverse and strange as this forces a reader to confront the question of how a patron of any art is able to appreciate what they are reading, viewing, hearing or tasting. The father of modern hypnosis, Milton H. Erickson, believed that we had somewhat of a preprogrammed algorithm for everything we needed to do in our lives: tie your shoe? use the shoe-tying algorithm; shake hands? use the handshaking algorithm. In this way, I believe we all have an algorithm in our mind that allows us to enjoy and evaluate a particular work of literature or a short story. The trouble with these troublemakers is that they are going after the very mental algorithm of how a short story should work on us. They are trying to redefine the genre at the same time as they present the genre. This can be a difficult task for both the writer and reader, but the rewards are also commensurately great (we can’t just keep eluding to the past and writing and rereading the same stuff indefinitely - sooner or later someone must invent! INVENT!)

My favorite invention of this collection was "The Fabulist, The Senior Engineer, and Da Paypaclip Hustla" by Douglas Hackle. Mr. Hackle really messes with conventions and ethics in this one. There were also elements of this particular short story that I didn’t like and that offended me somewhat. And then I was forced to wonder, is the author offending me on purpose? Probably. Be prepared to discover new things and to be a little offended at times. It’s almost impossible to have one without the other.(less)"

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Random House Word Menu: New and Essential Companion to the Dictionary

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