Skip to content

The Selfcleaning World

stories & images from a world on the edge..

  • Stories
  • Foto
  • Art
  • The Calculix Series
  • Wanderings

Tag: fiction

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

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

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

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

Unbottled

Had I convinced Imagine that I was on her side, that she could trust me with her story?  I waited … More

animator, Bern, bet, Calculix, choices, coffee, decision, dice, energy scaling, entopic light, experience, fiction, Imagine Summer, intoxication, literature, memstrat, monk, story, test, trust, truth, writing

Priapic

Poor old sad sack, couldn’t even…… you know.   He slept out back. At a convent nestled in the alps … More

convent, coven, erection, experimental, fiction, flash fiction, highwayman, literature, priapism, priestess, shoreman, showgirl, story, urchin, worm

Geomuted

I have a flash fiction piece up at Farther Stars Than These, sci-fi about noise and silence in a future … More

climate change, fiction, flash fiction, homeostasis, isolation chambers, literature, noise, Sci-fi, silence, story

Posts navigation

Older posts

Twitter Updates

  • Hiking in early spring. . Cedar Barrens trail in the Carp Hills. . . Palmerston Canonto Conservation area. . . Blue… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 month ago
  • We all must do our part in standing up to evil in this world, in any way we can: morally, financially, voicing trut… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 months ago
  • Winter scenes before it all melts away... instagram.com/p/CbJT1wxlvPT/… #winterwander #hike #ON #Canada #nature #forestbathing #winter2022 3 months ago
Follow @imaginary_voice

Categories

  • Foto
  • Original Art
  • Stories
  • The Calculix Series
  • Uncategorized

Recent Posts

  • The Dunes South of Town
  • Enter the Huckster
  • Is this Social?
  • Searchlights
  • Destroy Clocks

Blogroll

  • Hollie Grace Anne
  • Illogical Contraption
  • io9
  • Psychedelic Salon
  • The Big Study
  • The Population
  • WestSideAction

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Follow The Selfcleaning World on WordPress.com

Copyright © 2020 by JBW. All rights reserved.

Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • The Selfcleaning World
    • Join 182 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Selfcleaning World
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...