JMPerkins

Kid World August 30, 2023 Blog I’m in kid world, that place where my days are driven by the tempo and rhythm of children (usually but not always my kid). I’m in kid world much, Fatherhood 8 Years In July 19, 2023 Essays Elliott flourishes, and this pleases me. She has friends and family. She has school and her dog. She has more or less good I’ve never been much an editor, much less an archivist. June 12, 2023 Blog That said, I’ve always bucked against my own leanings and biases; felt like I should be a A New Moon June 12, 2023 Blog I lost writing, for a time. It was one of a myriad of things I threw on the pyre of trying to keep a failing marriage going, mortgaging Human beings live inside stories. June 1, 2023 Essays Perhaps it is possible -with brain injury or with enlightenment- to live outside them rather than simply take Meditations April 24, 2023 Essays I started writing this when I was 19. I had less chill then, was prone to imagining that hardness would allow me to be what I wanted I recently performed a story I wrote for So Say We All’s show, VAMP. January 4, 2023 Nonfiction Here’s a link, possibly embed. And if you prefer the written version, that’s Time used to be different. August 8, 2022 Blog We used to make time with the animals and plants. Spring was when daffodils bloomed, which varied year to year as we A Pile of Dead Selves August 2, 2022 Blog Death and rebirth is the name of the game. Rising, only to fall, only to rise again; life and death, victory and defeat, expansion contraction – the I used to suffer from optimization sickness. June 1, 2022 Blog Whatever I was doing, I thought I could do it better. Whatever I accompished, I thought I could do Seven Rounds May 24, 2022 Fiction By J.M. Perkins ‘Drop him!’ I command, wishing my voice was deeper. The perp does, but then stalks towards me. “Halt!” I say and this I never regret camping. April 12, 2022 Blog I never regret going out dancing. I never regret writing. I never regret having an adventure with my kid. I never regret Depending on what door you enter a building through, your mannerisms, April 2, 2022 Essays your _; the same data/information will be interpreted differently as In the Absence September 8, 2021 Fiction This story originally appeared in Girl at the End of the World Melissa laced her fingers around the cup of coffee, drawing in heat Earth Day September 8, 2021 Fiction For thousands of years, we did not understand our purpose. Those were dark times, times when we poisoned the sky and soured the land The Numinous, Trauma, and What Comes After August 2, 2021 Essays Imagine you see a UFO. It doesn’t have to be a UFO, but Something that doesn’t fit in your worldview: light(s) in the sky not following all the Let us begin here, in what is the source of ancient & eternal May 30, 2021 Blog wisdom: you will die. Unless you pin your hopes on some manner of transhuman excess or Field Exercise May 19, 2021 Fiction “Where’d you go, my little crustacean?” asked the Gimp aloud, senses probing the grimy alley. Of course, in the skin-tight latex wrapped kevlar of Ignoring the Overlay May 19, 2021 Fiction Jenny sat, tapping her fingers to keep from biting her nails. She was having trouble concentrating. She was having trouble being here and now, in The Taste of Soured Causality May 19, 2021 Fiction 1. To Ethan, Veronica had never been more beautiful. Across the room, he watched her sip her champagne and laugh as she touched her husband’s arm.