From the monthly archives:
The song: here, at Grooveshark.
The story:
Taylor and I ran across the street to the liquor store, dressed in whatever clothing lay within reach. She wore sweat pants and tennis shoes with her bomber jacket; I looked at the shoes I’d chosen and wondered why I’d ever bought them, wondered exactly how many pairs [...]
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Just like Sealab 2021, except not funny. Listen to it now at Grooveshark.
When I was seven
My father said to me
“But you can’t swim”
And I’ve never dreamed of the sea again
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My mostly auto-biographical short “In Your Absence” has been accepted by Hair Trigger, the literary journal published by Columbia College Chicago’s Fiction Writing department. According to Columbia’s website, “Hair Trigger has won 23 major awards in national competitions, and has never failed to place in any year that it has been eligible.” All of [...]
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Find it here, at Grooveshark.
“He severed ties with all who he considered to be an intimate relation. There was no malice involved; he could only flounder and fail under their concerned gaze, and he refused to suffer through that humiliation. Better to disappear, to blink out, like Christmas lights yanked from the outlet [...]
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So I finally launched the site, though it took the combined efforts of several nagging friends as well as Paul Sternberg, my web designer, to get me to do so. Though to be honest, Paul did all the work and heavy lifting while I moaned and complained. “But I don’t WANT to move [...]
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Recorded during the sessions for National Skyline’s most recent album Bliss and Death, “Gravity (I-IV)” didn’t fit the motif for the rest of the disc, thus ending up on The Bloom EP. It’s a shame, as the song is the best bit of mid-nineties space rock I’ve heard since, well, 1995. Part I recalls [...]
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I don’t write science fiction. It’s not beneath me or anything; writing science fiction, fantasy, westerns involving Big Ed, the Dinosaur Cowboy From Orion V — I’m just not interested in writing it. (Though I might be on to something with that Dinosaur Cowboy.) Anyway, as a smartass answer to an in-class assignment, I [...]
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Christmas was what settled it. Over my years of dating I’d learned a thing or two about gift selection during the holidays, the first of which was to never, ever buy your girlfriend electronics. Exceptions can now be made for all things Apple, of course, but in my experience, women do not want to unwrap [...]
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