Destroy All Monsters

Authors

  • Robert Guffey California State University, Long Beach Author

Keywords:

heroin addiction, stand-up comedy, friendship, father-son relationship, HIV/AIDS, Los Angeles

Abstract

In this short story, a struggling stand-up comic is dragged by his newly successful friend to a Torrance house where the friend shoots heroin with an HIV-positive acquaintance, and a sale of clean urine ends in a violent clash with the acquaintance’s father.

Author Biography

  • Robert Guffey, California State University, Long Beach

    Robert Guffey is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University–Long Beach. His latest book is Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security (OR Books, 2015), which Flavorwire has called, “By many miles, the weirdest and funniest book of 2015.” A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he has also written a collection of novellas entitled Spies & Saucers (PS Publishing, 2014). His first book of nonfiction, Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form, was published in 2012. He has written stories and articles for magazines and anthologies, among them The Believer, Catastrophia, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mailer Review, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Pearl, Phantom Drift, Postscripts, and The Third Alternative.

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Published

2016-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): 10th Anniversary Issue

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Guffey, Robert. “Destroy All Monsters”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, pp. 466–480, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/591.