The Herman Tunnel

By Paul Ash

 

 

Written from the perspective of the imaginary friend to an individual completely isolated as a product of debilitating OCD, The Herman Tunnel is a medium size story by Portland writer Paul Ash. The story takes place in the writer's native Brooklyn NY at the corner of Ocean Parkway and Kings Highway.

The Herman Tunnel's environment is based in the world first identified in the endnotes of "Can of Air", the truly awful third book by Paul Ash, originally written in 1998.

The full text can be read below, or you may Click Here to download as an eBook in PDF format instead.

 

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Click the chapters to read online:
Part 1a. Herman Has a Smelly Egg

Part 1a. Herman Has a Smelly Egg
Part 1b. When Herman and I Met It Was Albany Part 1b. When Herman and I Met It Was Albany
Part 1c. Birthday License. Part 1c. Birthday License.
Part 1d. In Which George Is On His Way to Meet Herman and I For Dinner with the Basement People Part 1d. In which George is on his way to meet Herman and I for dinner with the basement people.
Part 1e. Herman and Shriner Hat Part 1e. Herman and Shriner Hat
Part 1f. PECTOPAH Part 1f. PECTOPAH
Part 1g. The Handle Puller Part 1g. The Handle Puller
Part 1h. Wo Hop Part 1h. Wo Hop
Part 1i. Elevator Johnson was on his way to wait. Part 1i. Elevator Johnson was on his way to wait.

 

 

A note on formatting: The Herman Tunnel was written entirely on an iPod Touch using ToFu Editor and running the Text Expander engine to predict common typing errors on the device and auto-correct / autocomplete. The restricted physical space of the device lended itself to shorter pargraph structure as well as the confined themes and settings in the story.


Also released under creative commons license in digital form is a series of printed monologues by Paul Ash:

What I Think About When I go to The Job


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The Herman Tunnel by Paul Ash is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. This license allows free downoad and sharing, however may not have be reprinted &sold, bindled, bundled, or massively distributed, without permission expressed by the writer or his stated agents.