Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. Winner of DARK SKY MAGAZINE's 2010 chapbook contest, Gregory Sherl's I HAVE TOUCHED YOU is a debut collection of linked stories exploring the hurt, drive, remorse and pleasure of fleeting relationships and casual sex. Through rapt, often kinky language and quick-fire observations, Sherl's stories linger and provoke, presenting the reader with a series of swollen hearts, unmade beds, and potent narratives. "If Tao Lin put the heart back into his writing, exchanged the bored neutrality for a sense of hope or lust or longing, we would have Gregory Sherl's I HAVE TOUCHED YOU. As with Lin, there are the musical references, the mapping of movements, and a diary of food and drink and drug ingestion, but instead of trapping them inside a forever monotonous plain, Sherl elongates them into beauty and rifle-fires them from a language-musket, something at once wonderfully matured and yet able to open gaping holes in our chests"—J. A. Tyler.
About the Author
Gregory Sherl is the author of two forthcoming Mud Luscious Press novellas: The Oregon Trail Is the Oregon Trail (2012) and Swallow (2013). His writing has appeared in Gargoyle, Columbia Poetry Review, NANO Fiction, New Delta Review, and PANK. He is the co-founder of the online poetry journal Vinyl.