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The Dunes South of Town

Hoar frost paints the fields, dappling a hazy whiteness over winter’s brown expanse.  Waves of snow ripple to the horizon, … More

Canada, desolation, duneland, dunes, fiction, flash fiction, hinterland, horizon, photo, photography, prairies, Saskatchewan, story, wandering, winter, writing

Enter the Huckster

In the year of our misfortune, the century hard to place, a peach-headed man descended on Rust Hill, pretending to … More

allegory, Americana, campaign, character, comedy, election, fable, fiction, humor, humour, Illuminati, literature, political, politician, politics, power, prose, rally, sales, salesman, satire, speech, stage, steampunk, story, stump, tale, tragedy, writing

Is this Social?

  They want your image  they want your soul  as much as you can give  they’ll take it all They … More

album, art, belonging, consent, consumer, DestroyClocks, drawing, fake, friend, identity, Image, imitation, information, listen, lyric, lyrics, machine, manufactured, media, music, photo, pitchman, poem, poetry, privacy, replicon, social, socialmedia, song, stream, tendency, tune, words

Five Stars

I have a short story in the new issue of Schlock Magazine: http://www.schlockmagazine.net/2013/06/24/five-stars/ It’s titled Five Stars and is about a … More

all-inclusive, astronomy, Aztec, fiction, five stars, god, Itzamna, literature, Mayan, Mexico, resort, Schlock Magazine, short story, star, story, vacation, vacationing in mexico

Kampuchea

Smoke rising out of the jungle, houses on stilts. Where are we? Ornate village temples, palm trees poking here and … More

architecture, Cambodia, divine flame, music, temple, travel, trippy

Naja Naja Kaouthia

More and more animals are starting to walk upright.  What’s happening?  Some kind of reality wave washed over everything. There … More

animal, art, blob, change, chimpanzee, Cosmic Cobra, fangs, fever, fiction, fire, goddess, immune response, internet shaman, neanderthal, paint, pastel, planet, reality, snake, story, venom

Industrial Accidents

I have a flash fiction story in the latest edition of Zygote In My Coffee titled ‘Industrial Accidents’: http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/100s/issue140industrialacciden.html An exploration … More

chemical, fantasy, flash fiction, hormone, library, literature, microfiche, microfiction, mutant, mutation, puberty, sex, stain, story, victim

This planet is being eaten

The transcripts of Bern Hijkl’s recounted journeys by way of the Calculix are hard to reconcile.  I had to remind … More

beings, blob, Calculix, dimension, Dr. LeVram, fiction, gob, guide, Haon, humour, lawmen, literature, machine elves, marrow, noetic object, omega point, planet, portal, research, Sci-fi, Science fiction, story, super-earth, symodron, totality, transcript, vortex, zombie

Library incidents

I have a story in the latest edition of Locust Magazine called ‘University Library’: http://www.locustmagazine.com/vol3/locust-three-december-2012 Incidents while drifting through corridors… … More

atlas, books, dust, fiction, flash fiction, ice, land, library, microfiction, stairwell, story, university, water

Non-Recreational Camping

I have a story in The Satirist called ‘The Occupational Hazards of Occupying’ – an exposé of the rise and fall … More

99%, camping, creative nonfiction, exposé, fiction, group, lampoon, leader, Occupy, protest, satire, story, writing

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