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…
Tag: experimental fiction
Perpetual Motion. Part 3 of 5. Nthposition.com Sept 2010
Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Full story here Scene 8. Not as long ago as most of the other scenes, with the exception of Scene 2. A Network Rail train from…
The junk food diet. Nthposition. Aug 2010
This was written at the mid point between my trip to Russia in August 2006 and right now. There is a fair bit of real life inspiration in the opening paragraphs,…
The Statistician’s Parable. Nthposition, May 09
This was written on a phone, a Nokia of some kind. There are two companion parables. Changing the sex of the character from sentence to sentence seemed profound at the…
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