The Man Who Would Be Kong: a Story

An elderly man, Max Strauss, retired in Miami Beach, visits an entrepreneur who is about to open a King Kong-themed restaurant. Max claims to have portrayed the giant gorilla in the 1933 classic film. But everyone knows that King Kong was actually an 18" tall animated model, don't they? So is Max an attention-seeking fraud? Or is he something far greater?

A story by the award-winning author of Fat White Vampire Blues and The Good Humor Man, or Calorie 3501