Harry Mathews, “My Life in CIA”, nthposition, 2005
I am sorry to hear that Harry Mathews has died. Mathews in many ways relived the expatriate American writer story previously incarnated by Hemingway, Pound, Gertrude Stein and so many…
Category: experimental prose
Perpetual Motion. Part 5 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010
Part 1 here. Part 2 here Part 3 here . Part 4 here Full story here. This story is fairly typical of my rushed efforts of a rather threadbare narrative and characterisation all around…
Perpetual Motion. Part 4 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010
Part 1 here. Part 2 here Part 3 here . Full story here Scene 9. A scene of explication With enormous fanfare, the Creative Online project, or CREON, was launched to…
Our selves, alone. Extract 5 (and final) Nthposition.com 2010
This is the end of the story. Not too sure about the “reveal” at this distance. However of all the stories I have reposted here this is the one I…
Our Selves, Alone. Extract 4. Nthposition. 2010
“When society was organised along rational lines, it is surprising how many people were left behind.” That line is striking on re-reading this stories. I am not sure how well my…
Our Selves, Alone. Extract 2. Nthposition, 2010
Full story here. and Extract 1 here. I recall my efforts to construct a linguistic expression of the contention that our selves are simply bundles of momentary, instantaneous responses, rather than something…
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1. Review from SF site, 2012
The original is here . As I repost this I realise that it is something of a companion piece to my musings on Twitter here . I was probably a little bit more dubious…
Annual Report, Nthposition, July 2010
Here I tried to capture something of the spirit of those months and years which have yet to be satisfactorily named. At the time, “credit crunch” was all the rage,…
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