<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Last Payphone on the West Coast </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>is a short story collection of rare realness- centered around folks finding analog moments amongst the age of instantaneous expectation. The twelve stories wander around the North American continent showing us an underground collector in New Orleans a self-aware hearse facing retirement in New York and an apparition in Mexico City. Told with a tint of the surreal these stories are alive with the people that reside in them. Perin's humanity shows manifesting in the meaning of small but authentic gestures.</span></p>