: About Me

I'm Robert P. Herbst and I write Light Humor, Short Story, Fiction, about Mount Perry, Florida. Home to Florida's only snow capped mountain. My web site is www.mountperry.com please drop in and visit a bit. I took most of the pictures on the site and I have posted a number of my short stories there.

My passion is ...

Writing Light Humor

I know too much about ...

Almost everything

My parents always told me ...

I was a bit out there.

My childhood ambition ...

was to build a 40 foot long submarine.

My favorite memory ...

Building a small car out of 1/4 inch thick steel plate.

Why I write ...

have great fun.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

A whole bunch of different stuff.

My first job ...

was careing for a clay tennis court.

My best moment ...

Leaving the State of Connecticut with my kids after a five year long divorce.

My inspiration ...

At the moment I have none.

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Automotive tires

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Humor: Rubber Snake What with crude oil becoming more difficult and expensive to obtain, an alternate source of petroleum products needs to be found. To this end the Mount Perry Think Tank was repopulated with experts in the field of alternate sources of petroleum products. Among them were our prime source of information on genetic engineering, Prof. Gene Splicer and the world renowned expert on automotive tires, Prof. R. E. Tread. Together these two experts represented the worlds pool of scientific knowledge on both genetics and automotive tires. The stage was set for a rapid advancement ...

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