Archive For The “Fiction” Category
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:58:17 To: BimBim <TheMan@squirrel.tree> From: Bonner <TheDoctor@pusshaven.purr> Subject: Blue Freezing Hello BimBim, Dr. Bonner #1 pussycat here. I am writing because Mizma won’t do it. I’ve begged …
David Sedaris: be still my pounding heart. If you weren’t gay, living in Paris, and a *lot* older than me, you would be my perfect man. I discovered his first collection, Barrel Fever (1994) in an independent bookshop in around 2001. I asked for a recommendation of something funny, and boy, did they deliver! His story and essay [...]
Written at Under the Bridge writing workshop. We were given an exercise to write a couple of sentences setting the scene, then we passed our sentences to the next person and had about 5 minutes to write the story based … Continue reading →
We’re working on dialogue and more than one 3rd person POV in the writing group. Here’s my effort. So much for flash fiction and keeping it under 500 words! Better luck next time. Mary walked out of the flower shop … Continue read…
“You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?” – Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime, but applicable to this movie in spades. Inception is the blockbuster of the summer and on a single viewing, well worth the attention. Hell, I may even see it again! Like Usual Suspects, Inception is a film [...]
Even his most vehement detractors would concede that Martin Amis, on form, is one of the most brilliant writers we have. A master of the comic novel, and an inspiration to Will Self and Zadie Smith amongst countless others, he has also proved to be a provocative commentator; his views on our and other cultures [...]
