Michael Pallagi

I'd Plan Differently: Stories Michael Pallagi

The ten stories in this volume will upset, amuse, and provoke you. With this collection, Mike Pallagi takes readers into worlds where fury has weakness, humor has pain, and journies are fraught with pathos, speechlessness, and uncertainty. In the title story, the spirit of a slain high school shooter recounts his planning and admits his tactical errors. In "The Wall Sentry," a familiar legend is revisited and reinvented. We experience the office treachery of an undergrad narrator ("Newsletter") and launch into the stratosphere with an overzealous teenager ("Jet Pack"). Pallagi's work is fresh, unashamed, and remarkably irreverant. Whether his protagonists imagine their legacies or panic over the loss of technological conveniences, Mike Pallagi takes readers on adventures both exhilerating and surreal.