Suit, Suit, Kill, Kill - Wendyhouse (intro) Nothing’s Going To Happen - Tall Dwarfs (outro) Night Train - Lee Scratch Perry (intro) New England - Billy Bragg (intro) Factory - Shihad (intro)
Submission Date:
16 May 2013
Category:
Flash fiction
In Chap-book
Title:
Essay W
Excerpt:
First line is the last line from Robert Walser's story, Berlin W.
With great regret I see that I have now bumped against the frame delimiting my essay, leaving me with the tragic conviction that many things I most definitely wished to point out have gone unsaid. Oh dear. This is indeed lamentable. Just when I was getting started too. Perhaps a ruthless edit might help matters, to make way for those missed observations of significance. The problem, of course, is that it’s all significant...
Christopher's Top Five Song Intros Of All Time Playlist:
My Black Ass - Shellac Kiss The Carpet - The Sisters of Mercy Wriggle Like A Fucking Eel - Whitehouse Avalanche - Leonard Cohen Clé de Contact - Metal Urbain
Submission Date:
16 May 2013
Category:
Flash fiction
In Chap-book
Title:
Towards A New Theory Of Evolution
Excerpt:
First line is the last line from Michel Houellebecq's The Map And The Territory.
The triumph of vegetation is total. This was the hypothesis Dr Peter Flint had reached with what he felt to be a depressing inevitability. It had been a struggle to convince the scientific community, and recorded instances of plant paraciticism in human hosts had been few and far between. Yet they did exist...
His Eye Is On The Sparrow - Traditional African-American Spiritual (outro) Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat - Bob Dylan (intro) Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley (intro) Dido’s Lament - Henry Purcell (outro) Bird On A Wire - Leonard Cohen (intro)
Submission Date:
16 May 2013
Category:
Flash fiction
In Chap-book
Title:
The Sky – Not Bright
Excerpt:
First line is the last line from Michael Symmons Roberts' poem, Corpse.
The sky – not bright – is green with storms. I lie on my back and close my eyes tight against the greenness of the light. Inside my head it is winter, in the shadow of a great wall, and the drums of a forgotten war are pounding...
Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde A Murder Of One - Counting Crows The Beauty Of Gray - Live Acrobat - Tanya Donnelly Cannibal - Keisha
Submission Date:
16 May 2013
Category:
Poetry
In Chap-book
Title:
When Night Shows Its Fangs
Excerpt:
First line is the last line from Phil Rickman's Candlenight.
A monstrous shadow, with the illusion of small, hard wings flapping at its shoulders descended into my vision like a living nightmare. I could not blink as my eyelids were missing. Evaporated was the word echoing through this encapsulation...
He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s The Pilot - Grandaddy Dry The Rain / The Hard One - The Beta Band Karma Police - Radiohead Can’t Make A Sound - Elliott Smith Jugband Blues - Pink Floyd
Submission Date:
16 May 2013
Category:
Flash fiction
In Chap-book
Title:
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Excerpt:
First line is the last line from Samuel Beckett's The Unnameable.
You must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. So I tried, propelling the last of the brandy down my gullet. I attempted to arch my neck, swan-like, so it would avoid contact with taste buds and either side of my oesophagus on the way down. It was no good. I instantly felt the puke begin to climb, a familiar unwanted visitor...
Straight To Hell- The Clash Heart Of A City - Jay-Z Beck - Loser Sabotage - Beastie Boys Sinnerman - Nina Simone
Submission Date:
16 May 2013
Category:
Flash fiction
In Chap-book
Title:
The Charm Of The Defeated
Excerpt:
First line is the last line from Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
"Wouldn't it be funny if that were true?" her Mama said, up to her elbows in morning’s afterbirth, scrapple floating in dishwater. Leaning on the sink’s edge, her bruised forearms breathed beneath a dusting of powder. Her spine gave into a gentle hunch...
Raining Blood - Slayer Could It Be Magic - Barry Manilow Twist And Crawl - The Beat No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age We Care A Lot - Faith No More
Submission Date:
16 May 2013
Category:
Flash fiction
In Chap-book
Title:
Again
Excerpt:
First line is the last line from Jenni Fagan's The Panopticon.
I - begin today. Fresh start. New me and all that. Sick of this. Gonna shape up. Transform.
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