Stories,
Poems, Reviews and Articles
So here's where you'll find the
writing of mine that hasn't been put into a book or anything. Organised
into convenient sections based on form. Which is an arbitrary kind
of arrangment, I know, but there you go. Click on the links to
get to each section. | stories | poems | reviews | articles |
The
NeoPulp ManiFesto
"NeoPulp draws liberally from the fantastic stories of this and previous centuries,
a melange of mythology and poular culture (take a bit of Godzilla, a bit
of paradise Lost, some giant robots, the sexual tension of a romance novel,
and the Bhagavad-Gita and mix them all together), and adds to this a "literary" understanding
of characters' motivations and emotional needs."
Stories
Spider-Sense
"He got bitten by a radioactive spider. He felt sick."
There
was an Explosion "A bomb fell on her. She woke up. Her skin was green. Her clothes
were torn." Heroes and Civilians "My rescuer was a six-foot-tall man wearing a blue and yellow
costume and a royal blue cape. I’d never seen him before. He delivered a casual speech
about staying behind the yellow line and how suicide wasn’t the answer
before leaping into the air and flying away."
Coastlines (via Pindeldyboz)
"She shuffles up closer and pretends like
she's interested in what I'm doing, even suggests a couple of amino
bonds that I have to admit fit the design pretty well."
Exit
the Raven (excerpt)
"I had the hideout
and the costume, I know how to duck a punch and how to shoot straight,
but actual fights hardly ever go the way they do in the movies."
The Mirror
Game (excerpt)
"When the adventure's over and Captain
Atom un-says the magic word, I snap back into realspace and pick
up where I left off."
Seven Dates that Were Ruined by
Giant Monsters -or- Why I Really Need to Get Out of This City
"He was charming
the pants off Tracy, bragging about his close encounters with Nerodon
and King Zenah..."
Poems
All the Other 'Cool' Electrons
"... do you suppose that the electrons in the outer / shells of higher
elements like Germanium and / Magnesium get jealous of the electrons closer
/ to the nucleus?"
untitled
"She is wet. She pushes her hips upwards, then looks at me. I don't love you,
she says, tears in her eyes."
souper vighagra
"go|two|days|nonstop|"
Beauty
is Dating the Beast
"and patience is a virtue /
and prudence is our dog /
and charity begins at home /
and beauty is in the beast /
at least /
that's what someone told me"
First Incision
"The scalpels rattle in the wooden box / as you gently set it beside the slab.
/ The body lies with forelegs droooping, / hooves resting just above its
chest."
Dancing
to Architecture (via Agnieszka's
Dowry)
"Start. / A 4/4 beat."
Evil
Robot Monkey with Flaming Sword
"What dread purpose do you fulfill? / Oh that I could call down
the Warrior / Angels and pit them against your / Malevolent Program..."
You
Should Have Killed the Monkey First
"Because of course it was the /
monkey that snuck between /
the bars on the window and /
pressed the plainly-labelled /
off switch on the death-trap..."
A
Rare Talent
"...to be able to say with confidence /
that it's a five-second grab /
from the opening track
on Duck Rock, Malcolm McLaren's /
1983 experimental world music opus..."
Pissing Off Ezra
"The story sharp goes that /
Ezra moonlight Pound and his /
triptych buddies would matchbox look /
at limp young orthopaedic sandals poets' /
manuscripts tree vole camping-ground..."
I
Have Seen the Fish
"no commute for you charlie padow, /
no commute for you."
Super Gas Power Attack
"there are dozens of power-ups /
that make it into the gas guns. /
use them to discover methane /
on boss levels and attack the glass dome."
Reviews
G0DLAND
Vol. 1 - "Hello Cosmic!" by Joe Casey
and Tom Scioli *NEW!*
"The first adventure sees
Archer rescuing a giant green alien dog from supervillain Basil
Cronus, whose desiccated head floats in a fluid-filled dome on
top of a robot body."
Police
Comics #1 by Jack Cole, Will Eisner and others
"Look back at 1941 and you'll discover a time when comics were just
for kids. As long as the kids were interested in poor drawing and inexplicable
stories, that is."
Same
Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kim
"...the depth of detail with which Kim
invests every step in the journey makes every digression feel
important and relevant..."
Kramers
Ergot #4 by Jeffrey Brown, Sammy Harkam, Sother Salazar
&c
"Inside you'll find the work of some thirty-odd artists working in almost
every medium conceivable: lineart on exercise-book paper, coloured pencils, crayons,
collages stuck on torn up boxes, solid inks, grey waterpaint washes, bold guache
blocks of primary colours - you name it. "
Eightball
#23 - "The Death Ray!" by Dan Clowes
"...an eye-catching delight, a symphony of experimental techniques in terms
of colour, dialogue, pacing and even panel composition."
Trosper by
Jim Woodring and Bill Frisell
"Trosper plays happily with its ball until a hooded red creature
kills Trosper's guardian and Trosper is forced to run for its life..."
Superman's
Pal, Jimmy Olsen #1 by Otto Binder and Curt
Swan
"The stories are as facile as one could hope for in a comic, with obligatory
cliff-hangers and fatuous solutions."
Mysterious
Suspense #1 by Steve Ditko
"As such, this is not so much a fast-moving action story as it is a dialogue-heavy
morality play."
Soundtrack by
Jessica Abel
"Abel has a compassion for her characters and a good eye for detail that
makes these 'real life non-stories' resonate in the mind of the reader."
Skrull
Kill Krew by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar & Steve
Yeowell
"The premise of Skrull Kill Krew is a perfect example of the
kind of idea-mining that Grant Morrison gets up to when he turns
his attention to the comics produced by Marvel..."
Dare by
Grant Morrison
"If you always found Dan Dare's adventures to be a bit too squeaky-clean,
the promise of seeing him mechanically buggered by his arch-enemy
the Mekon might make you sit up and take notice."
Lovely
Biscuits by Grant Morrison
"Characters featured include Aleister Crowley, Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll
and HP Lovecraft. Cultural references include the Ripper Murders, Reichian
Orgone Theory and Freudian psychoanalysis."
Dog
Lovers' Poems edited by Jeff Kennett
"There is little or no
sense of structure here, no appreciation of the forms and capacities
of poetry."
Damn and be Published -
small press reviews part
1
"When I go to second-hand bookstores and look through the poetry
shelves, it's the books with staples, as opposed to spines, that
catch my eye. "
Damn and be Published part
2
"Ink is a valuable commodity, and we salute those who choose to use their
ink to put their work out there."
Articles
Dancing
Fool
"Animator Dan Hartney, the man responsible for Buckethead,
says that he was always pretty nervous about how he was going to
execute the dance sequences in the film..."
Are
you Searching for Me?
"I play about with rule-generated writing every once in a while, trying
to find something within the genre that resonates with me."
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