Daniel Heller

A Typical, Sweltering Phoenix Afternoon Daniel Heller

Essays about sexual homeless girls and stealing from the homeless. Poems of children making sense of their psychedelic sense impressions with a theme park rodent. Stories about love, loss, skateboarding and Jesus-these are just a few flashes of the mythical mayhem you'll find in this compilation of creative writing called A Typical, Sweltering Phoenix Afternoon. Prose poetry, free verse, short fiction and nonfiction-there's something here for everyone, no matter if you were once a godless, degenerate teenage punk who raged through city streets on LSD and alcohol, or an obedient, cheerful Boy Scout who hiked with the Holy Spirit in the mountains of Arizona. This all-American collection of youthful treason and irreverence wants you to read it all, to join in the fun, and revel in its dark, spiritual, literary freedom.