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Footnotes in Search of a Story
In Short Stories on January 31, 2012 at 12:05 am- The naming of the house RENFIELD is an unambiguous reference to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in which Renfield is a minor character. It provides a suitably gothic name for the house in the story. Read the rest of this entry »
The Confusion
In Short Stories on January 21, 2012 at 8:24 pmThese were rough, rivetless, piecework men. I stood there in my pajama pants, the night’s breeze licking at the flap, shrivelling my already insubstantial poke of manhood. Read the rest of this entry »
A Popular Novelist Foresees His Death
In Short Stories on November 25, 2011 at 12:04 amThe Poppy Festival
In Short Stories on November 20, 2011 at 4:47 amOne fear of mine: My children resenting these days in the future. Read the rest of this entry »
“Death” (Us)
In Short Stories on October 20, 2011 at 2:00 pmWe arrive at the sentencing early, even before the news trucks, to a team of policemen that directs us away from the courthouse and into the Municipal Building parking lot across the street. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday 26 July 00.51-1.22am
In Short Stories on August 4, 2011 at 9:21 pmIt is 00.51 and I have kept the light on. It is 00.51 and I have kept the light on and I feel sick because I have eaten too much.
It is 00.52 and I feel sick and the light is on and I have eaten too much and I think I still love you. Read the rest of this entry »
The Roses
In Short Stories on June 2, 2011 at 5:10 pmI want nothing more than to smell these roses. I want nothing more.
My family, I will never see. Again. My crew. Rescue, is improbable. If they find me, at all, it will be frozen, my visor furred … with frost. Turning and turning. Read the rest of this entry »
Lopud Island
In Short Stories on February 24, 2011 at 9:17 pmYou look down from the top-floor room of your hotel onto the beach below. It is 7am, and the man you know as Renato carries deckchairs from a small square shed and places them in lines on the stone, ten metres from the shoreline. Read the rest of this entry »
The Inordinate Sexual Proclivity of Jared Montague
In Short Stories on February 13, 2011 at 8:09 pmI imagined him striding into Sloane Square station, coffee in hand, handsome, hyena-hung, swinging his black leather attaché case. To be injected, hypodermic-like into the blood stream of London. Read the rest of this entry »

