Spermatozoa

About the Book

About the Author

Reese Simmons breaks all the rules of traditional storytelling with his meta-fictional polemic, Spermatozoa. He adheres to no specific form; he does not play the game of writer pretends that reader is not reading. His stories offer vivid imagery, biting sarcasm and fresh nuances abound. Technically slight at hand, Simmons exhibits a masterful control of irony, an eagle-eyed point of view and a rich overflow of complex ideas. Through the use of literary humor, symbol and theme, Simmons upsets, disturbs, shakes the very ground that we stand on, while simultaneously inducing wild bursts of laughter in public. A product, himself, of the impoverished section of North Philadelphia, Simmons brings new meaning to the phrase ‘Brotherly Love’. For Simmons the title of a story is not arbitrary; Brotherly Love is truly ‘Brotherly Love’, In Pulse Optional, ‘Pulse is truly optional’, and in Crippling Fashion, ‘Fashion truly cripples.’ Bordering on Polymorphously Perverse, Simmons casts an original eye at such provocative subjects as sperm, penis anxiety, homosexuality, feces, rape, slavery-progenitor of what Simmons calls ‘the race complex’, and necrophilia. When asked why he spells horrible doom for so many of his characters, Simmons offered this response: ‘What can I say? I’m a humanitarian’.