I don't expect this one to get answered, but a friend who I recently introduced your work to asked, and I was curious:
Have you ever dabbled in writing erotica, or possibly better termed, smut? Maybe under a pseudonym?
Given the wide breadth of topics you've written about, and given that most artists of any type tend to dabble at least a little, I would guess that the answer is yes, just curious if any of it ever got published anywhere?
Thank you for your time, good sir. I've been a fan almost as long as you've been writing. Still looking for a copy of The First Four Years of the Fab Five for less than a billion dollars, and looking for a replacement for my stolen (and signed, in person, long ago) copy of Don't Panic.
There's a story called "Tastings" in Smoke and Mirrors, and a few bits of American Gods, but that's all I can think of so far.
Uhhhh what about that comic script where and angel and demon compete for a soul? Sort of Cherry-Poptart style art if i recall. I thought that was one of yours?
It was! I just went looking to see if it was on the web, and found this, and the first two pages.
Larry's memory is not quite accurate here as to who wrote what. Or at least, what he remembers is the original plan. It was meant to have been a collaboration with Kate Worley because I loved Kate and really loved the idea of collaborating and also she needed the money. And the plan was that I'd do an outline based on the plot we'd come up with and she'd write the sex, because she wrote good sex, and I would write the not-sexy bits. Kate came out to my house for an afternoon and we plotted a story, and then I went away and a couple of months later I wrote a story and sent it over to Kate, who was then meant to write the sexy stuff. Kate read what I'd written and pointed out that A) the story I had written was not at all the story we had plotted and I appeared to have gone off and plotted and written an entirely new story all on my own, and B) I hadn't actually left her anything to do, because Larry Welz was perfectly capable of filling in the blanks in terms of what the two characters were actually doing to and with each other in the story. So she didn't want her name on it or any of the money. And given that this was all friendly and straightforward, that was how we left it. (Although I felt bad because the whole plan had been that Kate would get some money.)
I still like the story. I like the wry voice in which it's told.
