Tag Archives: performance
The SHORT STORY Machine: “The Boy Who Loved Oswald”
The Boy Who Loved Oswald. “Can you really tell a story about an historical figure without doing any research?” She said, edging off her seat, gripping the small round unsteady table at its sides, shaking it, sending circular waves racing … Continue reading
The FICTION Machine: “The Television Was Getting Bored”
The television was getting bored with the Frigg family and tried to change the channel. Ridiculous tears sweated out of the coils, onto the wires, sparked and ignited, and set the house on fire. Little Chucky Frigg was orphaned at … Continue reading
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The SHORT STORY Machine: “Episodes in the Creative Destruction of Currency”
It wasn’t him that was breathing in this hot little room with crusted baby yellow walls. It was the mattress on which he lay: heaving and wheezing, miasmic clouds of dust, sweat stains, coughing and humid life. This hot little … Continue reading
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The SHORT STORY Machine: “The Observation Parties of M. Voie and Herr Guck”
We are going to enter the black and white theater now. If we have questions we will wait until the end to ask them. A man in a gray jacket with cracked skin and pale lips sits uncomfortably upright typing … Continue reading
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The SHORT STORY Machine: “Rehearsing A Café Scene”
The bearded prince of nothing-to-do (that’s me) fits himself into his borrowed throne at the café on the corner of this green and budding street. He left his miniature laptop at home and his satellite cell-phone turned off and his … Continue reading
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