The submission guidelines for Unlikely Stories state that "I particularly enjoy work of an adult, offensive, or weird nature." Until reading the short stories of Bill Berry, I had no idea what adult, offensive, and weird meant. Move over, South Park. Pop culture's new freak-of-the-week is a gay English teacher who writes about Sartre.
Bill says, "I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Presently, I live in columbus, ohio. I went to Antioch College for my BA in literature, and got a master's in Rhetoric/composition. I have been teaching English for 8 years now.
"My writing tends to focus on queer issues and has been called transgressive. I like to being political with my stories. I am always interested in how the political and the personal coincide and collide. I like to explore the concept of identity and how it is created and/or manipulated through language. While I try to be an interesting and entertaining writer, I am intrigued by the idea of who is reading my work, and I want my audience to feel challenged by what they experience." Drop him a line at billberry@hotmail.com.
Bill's works here at Unlikely Stories are:
2003:
The Story of Joan of Arc: Martyr Complex
When You Are Gone I Will Still Be Here
Imagine
Scarlet
Fucker
The Seduction of Bill Clinton: Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar
2001:
Paris: City of Suicides
Identity Politics: Failure
July 1999 - July 2000:
Of Mice and Men
The Tempest
The First Six Months After Death