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Making Sense – A review of Jim Murdoch’s Short Story Collection 15 Jul 2013 | 12:00 am
The first time I saw her if you’d said to me within six weeks she would’ve given up her forty-year-old virginity to me across her creaky kitchen table one rainy Saturday afternoon – accompanied by a r...
The Dead – an ending by James Joyce 29 Jun 2013 | 03:16 pm
I wish I’d never read it so that I could read it again for the first time: A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silv...
The News on TV 5 Apr 2013 | 11:46 pm
Anna is standing behind me in the queue, holding the tv in both arms as if it were a large foal. The shop guy glances at her but addresses me with his eyebrows. Something wrong, sir? We don’t want it,...
Futility 28 Mar 2013 | 02:47 pm
Between my fits of sleep I thought about you, rehearsing our future, which I knew would be brief. Of course we would sleep together, though this topic had not yet been discussed. In those days, as you...
It Isn’t Tom Waits 4 Mar 2013 | 02:41 pm
The voice. It could be him but it isn’t. It is completely different. It is gravelly and the band is heavy on bass and feedback, dissonant; the lyric is mystical, coming through a smokehouse, conjuring...
Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor (Animation) 23 Feb 2013 | 11:15 pm
Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor anime short film in three parts by Kōji Yamamura, voiced by kyōgen actors of the Shigeyama house (with English subtitles). Part One of Three: Part Two of Three: Part Thr...
Source Confusions: Distortions of Memory 7 Feb 2013 | 12:15 am
“It is startling to realize that some of our most cherished memories may never have happened—or may have happened to someone else. I suspect that many of my enthusiasms and impulses, which seem entire...
Thornton Wilder – Being Alone 23 Jan 2013 | 11:43 pm
The Stage Manager delivers an opening monologue in which he explains, matter-of-factly, that “the dead don’t stay interested in us living people for very long. … They get weaned away from the earth–th...
Darkness – a poem by Lord Byron 4 Dec 2012 | 12:52 am
Darkness I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and bla...
Do Not Write Love Poems 16 Nov 2012 | 01:36 pm
You ask whether your verses are good. You ask me. You have asked others before. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are disturbed when certain editors reject your ef...
