I want to say: don't make yourself small. Then, the temptation to make your world bigger when it should be honed. Other people's pain that will become stories. Pain to come. People picking things off you, and censorship (it's not about you). (We will always make it about ourselves - that writer has seen behind the … Continue reading A Valentine to writing (and the moment)
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Response to A.S. Patric’s ‘Questionnaire’
I was thinking about A.S. Patric's recent post on the Overland blog all of yesterday afternoon. I thought I'd have a go at responding to his piece, just off-the-cuff. Note: the words in bold are Alec's. Are we more disconnected? I know how late my crush goes to bed. Are we more superficial? Skin is a surface. Does … Continue reading Response to A.S. Patric’s ‘Questionnaire’
The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno – a 'mood' review
Punk Planet Books, 9781933354101, 2006 (Aus, US) razor. pillow-kiss. mental patients. interior snowflakes. haunted house memory. failed masked-man. essentially bad or essentially good? the horror of a discovery. pills, lots of them. lonely echoing voices down the phone. vaporized individuals. an office. graveyard shift. mystery. solved/unsolved. missing her. stealing pink. childhood gone. … Continue reading The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno – a 'mood' review
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