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Tag: experimental prose

Posted on October 7, 2015

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,…

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Posted on September 8, 2015

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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Posted on September 7, 2015September 7, 2015

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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Posted on August 28, 2015May 16, 2018

“Somewhere Near Venice”, from Shelf Life Magazine Issue #14 – I wrote this in early 2011 and it was published online in early 2012

Shelf Life Magazine is now defunct. When I look back at my early student writing, this is the kind of thing I was doing – I believe described by Michael…

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