The Jiggered Genesis: Two hairly-hungover students sit amongst the psychedilic patterns of a trashed post-party lounge, and extend their night-time DMC’s into a magazine manifesto. The shoddy journalism of a local rag screams extra ache into their already-suffering skulls. Bad reporting inspires them to new heights of literary ambition. “We should submit articles to local [...]

Video games have generally had a bad rap. At some time or another, they have been denounced as causing, amongst other things, social alienation, addiction, violence, suicide, and murder. Video games are also thought to have little to show for themselves beyond enter- tainment or educational value. Some studies have shown that certain types of [...]

I scan the lobby and find the cherries Clausy left on a table screwed into mahogany with cast off stilettos from lamed ankles of debutantes (so hopeful from their pubescent altars).   Attempts at art after atom bomb cocktails should be left at home in sober hours,   except in the beloved frames of corporate [...]

He had been staring at the wall for a long time before he realised that it was no longer there. Admittedly, he’d never been what one might call ‘perceptive’. The simple fact was that he spent most of his time staring at his TV, watching home-movies. When he wasn’t watching them on TV, he was [...]

I had hoped to learn something in Denmark, nothing remarkably eye-opening, just a simple kind of knowledge that would take me away from the drab. I wondered, for an instant, if I’d been mistaken in my enthusiasm; my American intellect, so suffocating at times. It’s no mistake I sought escape from a culture of the [...]

Dear Sir, My bed is awake. I have given him all my rest. So let him lie open, honest and easy, knowing sleep is for the best. I know Sir that life isn’t fair and nothing is ever easy. But please Sir, thank him for waiting, waiting up there for me.I asked you kindly sir; [...]

I have a picture of Paris Hilton. Back arched seductively, her naked chest is pressed into a stuffed animal she holds. The designer jeans she is advertising hang tenuously upon her tenuous hips. Her head is tilted back ever so slightly, and peroxide hair falls against a gaunt face with the quintessential men’s magazine ready-for-a-blowjob [...]

And Pegasus flew away, out of mother Medusa’s neck. He seemed bent on his purpose to chase a mare above.   On and on he galloped not looking back, not once. On and on he went, not like Lot’s wife, never.   Then he met Beowulf upon the neck of the Dragon. The Geats’ chief [...]

In the Nicotine Dream We do not walk on flat ground. Open mouths attract flies. Empty pockets, nimble fingers.   Baboon brides and gorilla grooms. Butterflies bloom Behind bulletproof cocoons. Well-timed cigarettes gratify rooms, Nicotine Dreams pushing out from within.   Blame the weatherman for raising expectations. Breed the perfect pit-bull, put it on a [...]