Wally Parker – Works in Prose

A Bird on the Train. Novella. 1995. (PDF 335 KB)
   A middle-aged man discovers that love still exists, albeit perhaps not for him.

A Celebration of Poets. Novel. 1995. (PDF 850 KB)
   A novel of mannerisms, dry and Gothic. The plot slips through one's fingers like dry sand. Those larger pebbles are the characters.

Adam and Everett. Short story. 1995. (PDF 120 KB)
   This dawn-of-Eden story illustrates the brahma principle: the snake is god, and god is a jokester.

Afternoon in Paradise. Long story. 1995. (PDF 183 KB)
   A paean to a moment of awful glory with a tricky rhythmic backbeat of Shakespearean syncopation.

Aunt Krede. Novel. 1998. (PDF 741 KB)
   A pastoral struggle between institutional and personal will.

Emile – A Remembrance. Canibiography. 1995. (PDF 156 KB)
   A dog's life. Typical fawning memorial to a dog (well, to all dogs who have fallen in the service of love).

Even in Eden. Short story. 1996. (PDF 132 KB)
   This end-of-Eden story illustrates the brahma principle: the snake is god, and god is a jokester.

Fanfare for Faded Dreams. Short story. 1996. (PDF 163 KB)
   The hero is enmeshed in the flywheel of life.

Harvest. Short story. 1999. (PDF 118 KB)
   Life in the Balkans goes on as it always has.

Lacewing Joins the Dance. Short story. 1996. (PDF 157 KB)
   A young girl rides the Spanish plain with Don and Sancho.

Life in the Palms. Vignette. 1995. (PDF 118 KB)
   The narrator bakes a cake but eats a Twinkie.

Skipping Stones. Short story. 1996. (PDF 126 KB)
   A life of Olympian intoxication stumbles into the valley of death.

Red-Letter Day. Short story. 1996. (PDF 108 KB)
   The maelstrom of insanity and chaos that precedes, inspires, and (maybe) empowers a leap into the abyss.

Rescue 910. Short short story. 1995. (PDF 81 KB)
   Compassion is painful, and not always justified.

The Tadpoles of Shorty McPhee. Short short story. 1995. (PDF 88 KB)
   Silliness marches on.

The Tar Baby. Short story. 1996. (PDF 125 KB)
   An ill-realized effort to model slow motion and the molasses dream.

The Visit. Short short story. 1996. (PDF 87 KB)
   A homage to the innocence of each new age, and the mystical destiny shared by all.