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Subscribe on iTunesPodcast #1: “Life on Mars”
16 May 2009, fiction, podcastThe inaugural podcast includes me reading my short story “Life on Mars”, a short piece involving a resigned man grappling with guilt on the surface of Mars while living among a sociopathic shipmate. It runs about 8 minutes and is probably not appropriate for work/children. Future podcasts will include more stories, fiction, and essays, and possibly interviews and discussions.
The Loop
03 Apr 2009, fiction, front26 April 1:12pm
I often lay in bed, imagining putting my head in a vice. The vice coming down, cracking my jaw, giving at least some relief. If nothing else, it might move the pain elsewhere. I think about these scenarios all the time, obsessively; I can’t help myself, the throbbing is insistent. At least inventing these scenarios gives me some sort of escape. I think about taking a hammer to my jaw, about running a screwdriver through the abscess, about slamming my head against the wall until I can’t feel a thing. (more…)