
About Ron Pullins
RON PULLINS is a fiction writer, playwright, and poet working in Tucson AZ. His works in fiction, poetry and drama have been published in numerous journals including Typishly, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, etc. A list can be found at www.pullins.com. Pullins won the 2022 Malcolm Lowry award for Dollartorium, a satirical novel forthcoming 2023 from J. New Books. He has also been a finalist for the SunSpot inception award, 2023, for first chapter of Morgan, a novel in progress.
Dollartorium, unpublished novel
Coming in January 2026. Then one day as a delightful little corn dog shop in Kansas is about to open, the Money Master in a TV infomercial leaps out unexpectedly and offers Ralph and his spouse the chance to get rich, to make money, Real Money! through taking a few short courses at the Dollartorium.
Yes, at the Dollartorium, a 54,000 word novel.
After some pleading from his avarice spouse, Ralph dutifully enrolls in the Dollartorium, learns about hiring, firing, the nature of money, marketing, finance, and work. Under the guiding hand of the Money Master, Ralph is awarded his own money machine, but this new obsession — along with the jealousy and greed of the Money Master’s number one Sycophant — brings collapse to the whole Dollartorium.
Fortunately for all who love corn dogs and honest work, his loving daughter rescues Ralph. Meanwhile, having managed the Corny Doo Doggery in Ralph’s absence, even his spouse has learned the value and pleasures of honest work.
From Fracture, a novel in progress
First chapter published by SunSpot, 2023.
“Our man Morgan wakes and finds the world has stopped. Zero at the bone. Everything has changed. It has snowed, and it is cold. Our man will once again throw off his sheets and push himself into the day. Get coffee.
“But today the world is altered. This is the moment of catastrophe.”