Trickster Tales

By John Briggs and J.P. Briggs

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975338846
• ISBN13: 9780975338841
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Fine Tooth Press L.L.C.
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

"Trickster Tales" will delight your palate and leave you wanting more.

Trickster Tales is a JP Briggs "sampler" that, if you're looking for a formula, you won't figure out. I found it a great mix of short, short-short and even shorter stories that you can consume at a sitting or enjoy a few at a time, snack style. Some of the most intriguing, like "Moonlight," I re-read to discover how Briggs has, in one short page, captured the essence of the first time experience of a fourteen year old girl in the back seat of a car, and triggered connections that expand her experience into so much more. Here is little comfort food for the timid, for the chef has reached into his spice bag for a shake of "bitters" from a dark, haunting side of human reality that counters any sweetness that might develop. Some, like "Haiku Sex," are raw descriptions of life's titillating moments, reminiscent of novels from the past, others contain unlikely and surprising happenings, still others stir in delicious dollops of confusion by focusing on the essence of feeling, relationship and desire. Surprisingly, these are emotionally the most graphic of them all. With hors d'oeuvres like these, only a glutton would ask about a main course, and yet a few of the longer pieces certainly provide that full a fare. "Nocturne" may be a most timely allegory about those who "get it off" with the cold, dark-eyed mechanical, never-miss corporate mavens of "good greed" and maximum cum, that keep those men coming back for more, and that forever separates them from the simple rewards and human exchanges "back home." "The Untended Risks of a Story," "Case Study of a Sharman Delusion," and "Copy" will leave you thinking, but with the smug satisfaction of the well-dined, and their lingering images may lure you back for just one more bite.