# Ric Perrott > Writer | Author ## Posts - [Close Personal Friend](https://ricperrott.com/close-personal-friend/): I had nothing for him to sign. Months of planning—I’d had the ticket since March—and somehow that one practical detail never crossed my mind. What saved me was the windbreaker they’d handed each of the “VIPs” on the way in, black, embroidered across the back with the words Close Personal Friend of Al. I decided that’s what I’d have him sign. Seemed fitting. The line inched forward, and the giddy couple ahead of me slipped through the gap in the curtain, while the two guys behind me—strangers an hour ago, now sworn allies after a long and far too serious […] - [Learning To Be Read](https://ricperrott.com/learning-to-be-read/): I know how to write. At least, I like to think I do. What I’m still learning, slowly and awkwardly, is how to be read. That distinction took me a long time to fully understand. Writing, for me, has always been about story. Not just sentences or style, but the deeper mechanics of narrative: character, momentum, consequence. It’s what I studied. It’s what I pay attention to when I read a book or watch a movie. It’s the lens I’ve been looking through for most of my life. In that sense, my confidence feels factual, even if it still feels […] - [Looking Behind, Looking Ahead](https://ricperrott.com/looking-behind-looking-ahead/): The turn of the calendar sneaks up on me every year. One day it’s just another week of work, writing, living, and the next we’re all expected to pause, take stock, and pretend we’ve been thinking clearly about the future this whole time. Still, this one feels worth stopping for. In 2025, I realized I wasn’t in Kansas anymore. After years of fits, starts, and detours (which I’ve written about elsewhere), my writing life finally stepped out of the sepia tones and into technicolor. Pick Up the Pieces, a short story, was published in July, and that felt monumental—the final […] - [A Small Moment in the Sun](https://ricperrott.com/a-small-moment-in-the-sun/): Today I did what I’ve done more times than I care to admit over the past two weeks: I checked the Amazon listing for my debut novel The Family. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular. It’s habit, curiosity. Sometimes I just like to make sure it’s still there. And then I saw the badge. #1 New Release in Conspiracy Thrillers.#3 Overall in the category. My first reaction wasn’t excitement. It was suspicion. I spent a long time in tech, and one thing that career teaches you is that data lies all the time. Not maliciously, just casually, without apology. […] - [The Wolf's Appeal](https://ricperrott.com/the-wolfs-appeal/): By Ric Perrott FAIRY-TALE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD FORLENIENCY AND EXONERATION “Because Everyone Deserves a Second Chapter” Office of Rehabilitation Once Upon a Lane, Suite 1 (Do not remove the crumbs) The Enchanted Administrative District Mr. B. B. Wolf The Old Oak Hollow 4 Darkwood Forest Dear Mr. Wolf, Thank you for your recent application to FABLE requesting independent rehabilitation status and full expungement of your record following your departure from the organization known as the “Big Bad Wolves.” Please note that due to the recent Kingdoms merger, our office is experiencing significant processing delays. We are also in the midst of […] - [numb](https://ricperrott.com/numb/): You check the phone before your feet hit the floor, and there it is again. Another headline, another loss with numbers that seem too large to fathom. You carry it into the kitchen, where it sits in your chest while you pour the grounds. You wonder if you’re allowed to enjoy the coffee. You are. The world is not asking you to stop. It never will. The grief isn’t a debt you can pay off by refusing small pleasures. It’s just weather now, this sorrow. Some days a downpour, others partly sunny with humidity that makes breathing feel deliberate. And […] - [Why "The Family?"](https://ricperrott.com/why-the-family/): I’m posting this on the day that my debut novel releases to the world. Sitting here holding the finished product in my hands—the smooth texture of the glossy cover, the rough feel and intoxicating scent of the paper—I feel fortunate. This is a moment I’ve been thinking about for almost thirty years, and now I get to share it with all of you, which is pretty amazing. One question I’ve been asked by the folks who have read the book is, “Why this story?” It’s a fair question. This is an unconventional debut novel from someone like me, so I’d […] - [Why My Stories Start As Screenplays](https://ricperrott.com/stories-as-screenplays/): Every writer has a ritual. Some swear by color-coded corkboards. Some swear at color-coded corkboards. Some draft in cafés, others under blankets, others in their heads while dictating it all into their phone. All perfectly valid, but my process is a little more convoluted. I start with a screenplay. This isn’t something I chose on purpose necessarily. It’s just the way my brain likes to organize story, and I blame past me entirely. In my twenties, I studied screenwriting at the New York Film Academy, where structure is tattooed onto your creative DNA. Everything was about scenes, beats, momentum, intent. […] - [December Girls](https://ricperrott.com/december-girls/): By Ric Perrott Christmas lights on Broadway hung like frozen fireworks above the sidewalks, where dark wool coats, matching fedoras, and bright shopping bags streamed in currents beneath a pewter sky. The promised snow had failed to materialize; instead, a New York winter light—sharp and metallic—sliced through the plate-glass windows of Gimbels department store. Inside, vast banners urged shoppers to seize the “Best Prices of 1962!” as warmth and commerce tangled in a seven-story monument to aspiration. This holiday season had transformed the place into a cathedral of calculated cheer. Thousands of golden bulbs cascaded in perfect strands from the […] - [The Color of Forgetting](https://ricperrott.com/the-color-of-forgetting/): By Ric Perrott The breeze on my face is the first thing I recall—cool, sterile, and carrying the scent of something I can’t quite place. Antiseptic? Or the moment right before the rain starts to fall. My eyes are closed, though I have no memory of doing so. I cannot remember how I got here. Thoughts slip through my fingers like water. My eyes open, and I’m sitting in a chair. The room around me is beige. The walls, the floor tiles, even the light—aggressively, oppressively khaki—as if I can no longer visualize what color is. There are chairs arranged […] - [Who the Hell Am I? (And Why Should You Care?)](https://ricperrott.com/who-the-hell-am-i-and-why-should-you-care/): So you’ve stumbled onto the website of some guy who calls himself a writer. 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