It's Impossible to Start a Fire

A fifteen year-old boy commits a haunting act and becomes a legend… A writer conspires to destroy his sister’s toaster … A small town Texas lawyer carries on an affair with his employer’s underage daughter … The country’s number one TV show takes place on death row … Two college students are forced to live together with disastrous results … A bland office manager might just be a creature of unspeakable evil … Venus is discovered in Austin … A new bride vanishes … A frat boy comes up with the first and only witty comment of his life … These are the stories of Charles Wax, aspiring writer, mediocre poet, right-wing extremist, all-around S.O.B., and hero in a world of enemies. These are the stories of his friends, antagonists, and acquaintances. Beginning with death and ending in enlightenment, these are stories of common people trapped between the pagan and the secular, between Karl Marx and Ayn Rand. These are stories about men and women seeking to spark the flames of freedom, revolution, and madness without burning themselves up in the process. These are the stories of Jeff Ellis. It’s Impossible To Start A Fire (If You Have No Desire To Burn) is a collection of darkly humorous poems and short stories about how we’re living today. Included within this volume are such underground classics as How I Let Allen Ginsberg Beat Me Off, Twelve Midnight Montgomery Hall Lobby Blazing Plain University, A Night in The Life Of Warren Aackland, The Vile Perfume of Blazing Bread, Jeffrey’s Spoken, Myself, the Girl, and the Bastard From Brazil, Common People, Coyotes Don’t Scream, and much, much more.