The Vietnam Project is comprised of 3 panels. The first of these is a novel I began years ago, about a grad student who hallucinates an alternate history of the American War with Vietnam. I am hoping to actually complete this novel one day. Part of that will be posting excerpts from books I’m reading [...]
History First it was the fragment singing its broken oratorio against the orotund and fragrant whole. We were in pieces in the choir and the ear was thrilled to hear the opus sung entirely by vagrant tenors and counter tenors sopranos perched on swing sets. Not like sunsets of purple wracks dragging curtains across [...]
The Wovel On Morning Edition today there was a piece on The Wovel, an audience plotted web novel. It is also a wheeled snow shovel, a device (judging by the number of Google hits), that is more familiar to people than the evolving literary form. The story presented it as an innovation, and a [...]
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Monozone was deep into panic. Beneath the zippered, gridlocked surface, under stockings, panty shields and contact lenses, inside the ironed shirt, the benzedrine suit jacket and gold crown, brushed into the rug, pinned up for the wig, tanned and henna’d, straightened, permed and dreadlocked panic surged and raged and churned and lifted till [...]
Specimen Tank
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