“Fat Boy” is a short memoir about the author’s first job when he was fifteen years old. It shows the jagged life living on the margins of society, death all around him. Sherman was shaped by the experience working on the roadsides along with convicted felons. There is no quarter asked or given on these dusty Louisiana byways, and no one will ever be the same traveling it alone or together.

"Fat Boy" was first published in the Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies at Arkansas State University.

Endorsements of Dayne Sherman and his work:

“Dayne Sherman writes like I wish I could if I was still young enough to change.”
--Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ & Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story

“Dayne Sherman’s exciting fiction takes us down a dusty Southern road to a place where both honor and ties of blood are more important than breath itself, and where even the religion is violent.”
--Tim Gautreaux, author of The Missing & The Clearing

“Sherman’s promising debut chronicles a young man’s thorny return to his Louisiana hometown… Sherman brilliantly reunites a land with its own set of vicious rules with a native of that land who, as a changed man, simply wants peace. Weaving his way through a series of complex characters and a terrain fertilized with a proud but bloody history, Sherman tells a spirited and engaging tale.”
--Publishers Weekly