word gains 1

I know that when they sit there and they read the words that I have put down that they are not reading the story, they are reading me. It is good to sometimes have the distance of anonymity between you and your readers. If every described suicide, every murderer, and every zany idea expressed reflects [...]

Write In 1

Everyone has a book in them. I was born with a pen in my hand. He had the scars to prove the first one and the photographs to prove the second. He was baptised in ink and now it slid over his skin like a memory. He wrote everywhere that he could – his house [...]

to fuck with

To fuck with someone … to always fuck with someone – that was the psychology. It was the only way that he knew how to get attention. Getting attention meant that he was occupied and that staved off the boredom. He was not a person that was blessed with ideas ever. Attention and the action [...]

Making A Difference

When you have sold all the weapons you can possibly sell and everyone that the guns were to be used on is dead; when all the places you wanted to conquer and control are under your thumb then you have to look farther afield. You have to create situations – create a market. If you [...]

form at art

His listening habits had changed a lot since he had first started listening to music and he supposed that was only natural considering how the formats had changed. The change in the media that things was presented with was necessarily going to have to impact upon the way you consumed the product, after all it [...]

something new

Gluteus maximus wasn’t a Roman emperor. Medulla oblongata wasn’t his wife. Latin is the favourite chance card of the lazy — they think it grants them some kind of day pass into the club intelligentsia. Anyone can parrot that bullshit for a little while but push past the superficiality of any act and you have [...]

Bother

Don’t bother. Can’t be bothered. No bother. It was all about bother. That was how he framed his life – in that rackety frame of a word. People told him that he needed to get a newer more positive lexicon but he told them that it was too much bother. Can’t teach an old dog [...]

Grit 7

He walked past the bodies of the two men he had just killed, opened the front door and emptied both barrels of his sawn-off shotgun into the gut of the person that came charging at him. It stopped the guy dead in his tracks. He cracked off two head shots from the custom glock, buried [...]

Grit 4

The map was good. Who knows, perhaps Gary was worried about Grit coming back for him? This was not going to be one of those situations where you could sit there and work out the best line of approach – this was going to be a case of walk in armed to the teeth and [...]

Reduce 1

The step from minimalism to asceticism was not a large one for him — it seemed a natural evolution. One he had been ready to take for a long time before he finally plunged headlong into the lifestyle.
Time was a slow accretion of layers, associations, chains to different things. He had been breaking the chains, [...]