Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas! — Whitman
Lost and Found on Haunted Plum Island
Lost The only thing the man knows is the speed, the aneurysm in his brain exploding his mind away in a growing star of light. The speed pushes him down,…
Robyn Hitchcock Interview
Robyn Hitchcock, attended Winchester College (alma mater to 1890’s decadent poet Lionel Johnson), followed by art school, from which he emerged to found the bands The Soft Boys in the…
Post Mortem Marketing of Antidepressants . . . Cash Cow from the Casket Set?
Marcus Greenback, CEO of the titanic new pharmaceutical conglomerate, Phizerckaxobbottartis, Inc. thinks he has found a “cure” for the flagging the anti-depressant market: targeting the despondent dead. News that he…
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The Book of Mary
A Mary was born in a city, and half of her was pregnant. No one knew that this was so, except for Mary; no one knew that she bore half…
Up in Smoke
Been to the ruins, have you? Not yet? Ah, you’re just off the charter plane. I saw that hat coming down the tarmac. You didn’t look like the rest. I…
Droll Anal Lord
Planet X They say it’s the moon—the lunar pull—that brings out the slavering beast. Maybe for some. But for me, it’s the ninth planet yanking on my chromosomes, that makes…
Doron Paz Interview
Since 2009 Doron and Yoav Paz have made four movies (Phobidilia, ,JeruZalem, The Golem, and Plan A) and four TV series (Exposed, Asfur, Temporarily Dead, and Fullmoon). The Golem and…
The Hollow Earth Companion
“The air is rarified; prepare to modify your breathing upon arrival. Consider taking a yoga or even a Lamaze class before travellng, as some tourists report that this helps in…
Life Plans
Victor Pence gestured around the kitchen. “I put the countertops in myself about a month ago. The refrigerator’s only a few years old. In fact, all the appliances are pretty…
Feast or Famine
Alternate Day Fasting: Lose Weight Fast, with Fasting! —the article title reads. The letters are long, spindly and black, like shadows of the words themselves. I scroll down. Luke is…
P2=A2 Sin 2ø
Nullity, lethe, preoccupy. And fear comes over me. Heavy shadows slipping from corners, quickly sliding, cover my face. A thick blanket falls and suffocates. Shadows of death, everywhere, leave…
Drive, It Said
This story, read by the author, may be listened to here. It was half-past twelve when the Thing slid into my back seat. A fellow sees all kinds in this…
The Sphinx
The Sphinx was first printed in 1894 in a limited edition, one year before Wilde’s trial. Wilde was then a celebrity, at the height of his arrogance and impudence, and…
Fragile
Peer Review of the Treatment of Homo sapiens at the Qortang Xenological Observatory Abstract:It is now common knowledge that on date 765.22:45 Qooroou Silicon Virus was found present in 87%…
The Wire
The knock at his door was expected. It was the short, rotund man he found in the hallway outside his apartment when he answered the knock, that surprised Evan. Dark…
Miss Mary Mack
That night Dieter lay in bed pondering the scene from Goethe. He got down the book and read it over. Here Faust wants to call up the ghost of Helen…
Poetry: John Grey
GATHERER I walk across the endless dry oceansof this planet,gathering rocks in sacks,thinking how if this were earthand I were wandering over its sea bedsI would have drowned by this.…