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Category Archives: Words
Various artists’ howls, raps & roars: recordings from the san francisco poetry renaissance
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix …” But then I heard them reading their existential stream of consciousness rants, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat poetry, poetry
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Midsummer (a story)
This time of year, my heart is full. Everything that can bloom is blooming, or has bloomed and fruited already, like mayapple and shooting star and trillium and the flowering trees that line my street. All the plants are up. … Continue reading
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The Chains That You Refuse (read by the author)
Let’s let Robert rave about Elizabeth Bear’s ‘The Chains That You Refuse’: ‘There are lots of reasons to get this book. I could go on about every story — there is that much in each of them — but I’d rather … Continue reading
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The Tea Maid And The Tailor (read by the author)
Early in her career, Cathrynne Valente wrote a duology of books, I won’t call them novels as they’re decidedly something else, entitled collectively The Orphan’s Tales which won the 2008 Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume, The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, won … Continue reading
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War for The Oaks (a movie trailer)
Well for a movie that never got made alas. Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks tells the story of Eddi, a rock and roll musician, that gets caught up in the enternal war between the Summer and Winter Courts of the Fey. You can … Continue reading
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The Empress Of Mars (read by the author)
Kage Baker was an extrodinarie storyteller, be it at a bar serving drinks in full historical garb, or telling her tales of immortal cyborgs who walked through time serving theirvfar guture masters and getting drunk on chocolate, the really good stuff of … Continue reading
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The Surgeon’s Wife (poem)
Catherynne M. Valente penned this poem. I have nothing left to give you. I am shoeless and poor. Earthy-toed rainwater trickles through a hole in my tongue burned there by ragged incantations and gangrenous hunger. Am I awake tonight because … Continue reading
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The Wild Reel: He comes for me when I sleep (excerpt)
Dream in a Field of Wildflowers He comes for me when I sleep. Resplendent atop a huge, ebony-skinned charger, its mane and tail rippling with white fire, he rides surrounded by the squalls of the seasons. I feel the gentle … Continue reading
Forests of The Heart (excerpt)
Forests of the Heart: Chapter Two: Musgrave Wood – 4 – A wave of music, conversational noise, and hot, smoky air greeted Hunter when he pushed open the oak and glass front door of the Harp and stepped inside from the … Continue reading
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The Weaver and The Factory Maid (first chapter)
Unite and unite and let us all unite For summer is a-coming today. (from “Padstow Mayday”) On a bright Saturday afternoon in Cornwall, the Padstow Mayday Celebration was in full swing. The musical part of the annual festivities had begun … Continue reading
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Tagged English mystery, ghost story
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