I’m sorting through some old prose in folders, preparing for a move. Keep finding little bits on scraps of paper, in notebooks. Unfinished mostly. Here’s one. Mo sucked dolly noodles from a tupperware bowl. She talked about the journey, talked about the city. Gravy dripped from her chin as she twisted the controls on the [...]
Originally published in Oasis no. 54, 1992 Ramshackle thought is blistering the surface of his brain. His voice breaks and spits in highly pitched discord; unfinished sentences, tongue-stuffed with nursery cadences. This all deceives. Too much study, they said. A Phd candidate, once. Mathematics. I hear the gossip, guess and embellish. “One pint,” he demands. [...]
Thursday, December 3, 2009
First published in Scifantasic, Issue 3, 2005 I don’t know exactly where I am, but I know almost everything else. Problem is, I’m forgetting it all. In the last few minutes I’ve lost the entire lineage of mammals from prototype amoebae to the nascent apes, the French revolution and the collected works of Enid Blyton. [...]