About Gary Percesepe

Gary Percesepe is Associate Editor at BLIP Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review and serves on the Board of Advisors at Fictionaut. His short stories, poems, essays, reviews, and interviews have been widely published in Mississippi Review, Antioch Review, Westchester Review, Rumpus, Pank, Word Riot, Necessary Fiction, Metazen, elimae, Moon Milk Review, and other places. He has a story in Sex Scene: An Anthology, and two other stories appear in anthologies by Red Hen Press. He is the author of four books in philosophy, numerous short stories and poems, and an epistolary novel with Susan Tepper, What May Have Been: Letters of Jackson Pollock and Dori G, (Cervana Barva Press) which was recently entered for a  Pulitzer Prize. He just completed his second novel, Leaving Telluride, set in Telluride, Colorado.

Two or Three Things I Know About Her

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Gary Percesepe learned the hard way that sometimes love means letting her go.

The Things Men Carry

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Gary Percesepe learned how to be a man by observing other men.

First Love and Other Obsessions

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Gary Percesepe is in love with love, and that might be a problem.

When the Game Becomes Religion

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Gary Percesepe, a minister, shouldn’t be able to make these connections, but he does.

Close

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My father always used to say, “Close only counts in horseshoes and golf.” What about life? In this weekend’s story, a man still in love with his ex-wife drops in on her at a bar.