and not here
you watch the actor the delivery and you know that the lie you were sold is broken glass you watch the movie and you know it isn’t a theory of everything it’s a reductive love story it’s a tragedy you read the…
Month: January 2018
Build A Love Story
How do you build a love story? You put a stack of books in the corner and then you set light to them. What books? Probably Herodotus, or maybe Shakespeare’s sonnets – something like that. No, you buy a lot of candy…
strange humans
strange human creatures with added on features they find you and beat you to apparently teach you but never truly reach you you aren’t the car you’re the driver the idea behind the fiver not the money earned not the body burned…
Dirty Author
Hack the system – the planets weren’t just that – spherical matter deposits in gravity wells designed to hothouse life and move out to change the way that consciousness was distributed throughout the universe – but they were that also. What kind…
The Reconstruct
It’s interesting when you write a whole bloody post and it just ups and disappears, and even worse when it is killed by the software you have installed to save back-ups, because it drops a back up in on top of the…
the roll of a lost marble
we work to explode it diagram work to corrode diaphragm we are here to breathe and to leave the lethe bring it on like phlegethon not go and drop this like a stagnant cocytus doing well like a river of hell like…
Finding A Punchline
I am watching Comedians In Cars Drinking Coffee and Jerry and Tina were talking about weird characteristics of comedians that make them only qualified to be funny people, and not to do other jobs, and I think writers are like that. There…
Finding A Punchline
‘It’s weird, you know, you tell a story like it is created in some kind of vacuum, but you know it isn’t, so I don’t know why you insist on continuing the pretense that it is.’ ‘If you don’t maintain the notion…
Jack-alls
There’s something feeding on stories, following the story-lions around in their prides; some kind of scavenger pack, they’ve nick-named them jack-alls, because they seem to be some formed from some kind of undifferentiated ideational tissue. The Chief Headitor Spence was moving his…
write what you right
don’t right what you write fight for the flight poly ticks in boxes takes an ear and docks it takes a fear and clocks it puts it in his pocket broken stages in a rocket lock it in a locket take a…