A college law class in a high school classroom. The teacher has Lawerence Lessig’s face but Warren Ellis’ beard; and Angela Lansbury’s body. I come in late and set up on top of a desk as far back in the classroom as I can. I need to change my shirt and spend the better part […]
I meet them down by the seaside. Not a beach; boulders and cliffs for miles in both directions. The landscape and the temperature are both Maine but the skies and the bugs are all Florida. I’ve got the bag slung over my shoulder; it’s heavy and limp, the straps digging into my shoulder. I have […]
The perspective is third person like television show or how you imagine the narrator’s eyes in such novels. It’s the tale of a small group of boys in a Faulknerian but alternative-history South, early twentieth century. A little bit steampunk, a little bit magical realism. The boys are fascinated by tales of some one-man traveling […]
I headed over to the mall because someone said that a new, “deluxe” music store had opened and that I would no doubt be able to find a new mixer there. I’d been telling practically everyone about how my current Numark was on its last beat and also how difficult it has been to find […]
We enter through an old converted firehouse, climbing the stairs all the way up to the roof. The roof (it turns out) is a huge parking lot with hills on either side. Cars are arranged in your typical tailgate fashion; one vehicle might take up two or three spaces by the time its various coolers […]
Harrison Ford reprises the role of Indiana Jones in a mash-up of Raiders… and The Shining. Indy is the caretaker of this huge lodging throughout the blisteringly cold, snowed-in winter months. He slowly realizes that all of the requests being made by guests are either ghosts or hallucinations and this plunges him into a psychotic […]
The police are rightfully after me. After getting out of work at my warehouse job, I got into my 1984 Buick Skylark and jammed over to the local package store. I tanked up that guzzler and bought myself a pint of Lord Calvert for the drive home. (Truth be told, I’d been shit-faced since lunch.) […]
Our fort is an ancient resort; the oldest hotel on Ibiza transported to much colder climates. This military installation is the last bastion of the Soviets — our slow take-over of Never Never Land having evolved into some tacit but successful bid for power over the island. From over the moon, Captain Hook sent Petrov […]
We’ve come to the lake to swim, some friends (two or three others) and myself. The lake has a large island in the middle and may as well be little more than a moat for the island; it’s eighty feed across from the shore to the island at its widest point. We swim clockwise around […]
At an after-party, I meet this DJ/producer that’s built his career out of pornographic movie soundtracks. He started out as a DJ in California (he explains) spinning mostly house and breaks; he always wanted to get into the production scene though, to have his discs become the ones that were rocking the floor. As his […]