Monthly Archives: May 2016

A World Without Logos

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Tietsu

The older he got the more he realized that sobriety was a condition he was growing increasingly allergic to. He would have attacks. Pangs of panic as his face flushed red with an anxiety that was a distant as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction | Tagged addiction, alcohol, anxiety, drugs, fear, learning to smile, Life, Love, potions, reality, self-medication, sobriety, world | Leave a comment

The One That Got Away

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Tietsu

The heel of her Stilettos catches my eyebrow. It takes off a good chunk of flesh, but nothing irreparable. She’s screaming at me, but her cries fall short with the cloth jammed in her mouth. She’s half naked on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged biotech, bound, contract killer, death, gagged, high school, if you're not impressed I don't blame you, kidnap, murder, published in a short lived pulp anthology, published long ago, pulp noir, rape, stiletto to the face | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Tietsu

There is something pleasant about books that take their time. In a world where bestsellers filled with rough and tumble detectives and cut-throat espionage, it’s hard not to think that in a world more and more dedicated to immediate satisfaction, … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review | Tagged Axl and Beatrice, folklore, forgetfulness, journey, kazuo ishiguro, knights, literature, Loss, lost history, magic, Memory, novel, Review, the buried giant | Leave a comment

Banished

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Tietsu

I have stumbled upon what appears to be a wormhole in the forest. My citizens will periodically appears on the ass-end of the map and begin the long and arduous trek back down to the warm comfort of their homes. … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Non-fiction, Something Else | Tagged banished, city builder, city elders, end times, evil, god simulator, irrational, Marvin, people, rapture, time space continuum, video games, what the hell gravity? | Leave a comment

After the End

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Tietsu

Dressed in enough layers to warm the dead, he wandered in from the street, caked in ash and smelling of chlorine. Through the ashen death coat his eyes showed a perfect green almost glowing in the toneless world behind him. … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged 1 tsp freshly crushed garlic, alcohol, apocalypse, breaking and entering, death, demons, dystopia, guns, monsters, scavenging, shotgun, survival, that comic thing I was working on, we found booze in a dark place | Leave a comment

Book Review: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Tietsu

It’s a novella that was the basis for a movie that apparently everyone but me actually saw in some form or another. That being said I’m not so disconnected from the cultural zeitgeist to be unaware of it’s existence, so I … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review | Tagged characterless, fear, horror, inspired a major motion picture, John W. Campbell, monsters, murder mystery, novella, psychological, pulp, Review, The Thing, Who Goes There? | Leave a comment

The Thing About Boys

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Tietsu

“Here’s the thing about boys: they die young. They’ve got bad hearts, bad brains, and from the time their balls drop they are on a singular path towards destruction. What is machismo? A disposition to see them die by each … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged battle of the sexes, destruction, did you know cigarette lighters were invented before matches?, fight, gender, killing, loss of purpose, machismo, masculinity, men, murder, power, something that will probably end up somewhere in the second book, women | Leave a comment

Anything I ask

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Tietsu

The bar smells like a mixture of menthol and alcohol. This doesn’t bother him. It’s the way bars ought to smell. What does bother him is the woman sitting next to him. She wandered into the bar just short of … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction | Tagged alcohol, bad dog no biscuit, bar, control, dress up, femininity, men, power, sex, sexuality, stupid simple creatures, tales from some future hell, women | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Tietsu

Technically the third in the four book series “From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy” there doesn’t seem to be any holdover pieces of plot from whatever came before and one can, so it seems, approach it without any bloody idea of … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review | Tagged Book Review, dystopia, Edward Bellamy, from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy, human nature, ideology, literature, okay not great, Philip K. Dick, plotless, polish literature, stanislaw lem, the futurological congress, utopia | 1 Comment

Cosmic Tao

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Tietsu

You will survive. Same as blood. Same as kind. You are a master of nothing. But you are bound by only what you convince yourself is your lot. Kill to kill. Love to love. But do it because you mean … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged boredom, cells, contemplation, death, god, humanity, kill, Love, musings, pretense, sadness, shadow god, suffering, walnut the great god of fowlery | Leave a comment