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Tag Archives: alcohol
Book Review: Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
I’ve mentioned it before and I’ll mention it again just for the sake of posterity: Murakami and I do not agree on the fundamentals of writing. He creates yamato-e paintings. Giving you the tangible as he deems necessary as well … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, cats, disassociative females, food, Haruki Murakami, Japanese Literature, jazz, literary fiction, Magical Realism, Men Without Women, surrealism, Yamato-e
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Red Boar Jones: Enter Holly
He walks in and finds a seat in corner booth. He stretches his back working out a kink that has been following him since he woke up this morning. It’s dark, light enough to make out the silhouettes of the … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged A novel someday, alcohol, biotech, blockchain, Book #2, Edensphere, futurism, implants, novel, prosthetics, Red Boar Jones, Rough Draft, techno-dystopia, whispers and whiskey
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Book Review: The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
I don’t read contemporary literature anywhere near the time of their initial release. They are read ‘contemporarily’, yes, but usually years away from their initial release and, forgive me, often by people who don’t care, don’t need, my readership … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, Animation, art, Artists, Contemporary, creative process, inspiration, Kayla Rae Whitaker, Love, relationships, substance abuse, The Animators
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Flashback: They Called Us Gods
Preamble: Neil Gaiman just released his new book Norse Mythology. I am a Gaiman fan, I began consuming it immediately, putting another book on pause to do so. Much like reading Haruki Murakami never fails to capture some hidden sliver … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, college, failed novel, fenrir, myth, neil gaiman, norse mythology, nostalgia, sex, Short Story, thor, trolls, valkyries, vikings
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The Kringling
What they didn’t tell you about Mall Santa’s is that for years it actually been cheaper to clone them than to barter with the quasi-unions of a bunch of seasonally employable drunks. So every year the MegaMall Corp of America … Continue reading
Pieces from the Novel #1: Neon Soul
Watching the cabs fold into the horizon of the city, something squeezes me, knocking against the comfortable fog of the alcohol. I feel it, an uneasy melancholy begging to be let out, to be thought, considered, felt. I steel myself against … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged A novel someday, alcohol, contentment, Dreams Away, excerpt, happiness, ice cream, Japan, Japanese, night life, perfect, pieces from the novel, wandering, writing
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The Story of Red Bull Jones
When his parents signed the papers to have him be a corporately sponsored citizen, they saw it only as a means of guaranteeing their child a life free from the burden of financial ruin. That was twenty seven years ago, … Continue reading
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Tagged A novel someday, alcohol, corporate, corporate sponsorship, cyberpunk, drugs, dystopia, futurism, plutocracy, red bull, taser, techno-dystopia, you will miss the bees
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I love you
I love you. I’m not entirely certain who you are, but rest assured at this moment my love is as real and thriving as anything I’ve ever felt. Sure it may be linked to the liquor coursing through my veins, … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction, Something Else
Tagged alcohol, atoms, contentment, death, galaxy, getting by, hate, humanity, I love you, Love, philsophy, the universe
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Ache
Signals fire. Pain. Pain. Ache. Pain. The head compensates offering solutions, not out of truth but out of desperation. I shuffle in my seat, waiting for the night’s high to take me. It keeps its distance. A mocking, smirking distance … Continue reading
Posted in Something Else
Tagged alcohol, coping, depression, doubt, employment, failure, headache, jobs, loathing, machinations of the world, pain, sadness, self worth, work
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Final Exodus
So this is another thing I found in the high school folder of my umpteen-backuped writing folder. The difference between this one and the one before is that this one is something that was rewritten nearly a decade later and … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction
Tagged alcohol, goodbyes, heartbreak, high school, Loss, Love, lust, origins, prototype, say yes, sex, The Novel I've almost written, the wrong choice
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A Land of Rum and Writing 