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Story: The Sidewalks of Kilimanjaro
“The Sidewalks of Kilimanjaro” is yet another in a growing collection of stories which I call “Terrors of the 21st Century – Tales of Suburban Banality.” In the next month, I’ll be publishing a book-length collection of these tales as a free ebook. They may not be as wholesome as reading Pilgrim’s Progress, but they’re [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! – Chapter 23 – I’m An Adult Now
15. April 2011
When I woke, I couldn’t tell what time it was. I didn’t have a watch or cell phone anymore, and given Johnny’s hostility to chronometrics, which he claimed was an imperialistic power play to assert control over our lives, I wasn’t likely to find any clues in his bedroom. Despite the rationale for his hostility, [...]
Continue reading...Story: Voltaire’s Great Great Grand-Bastard
5. April 2011
At the letterbox, Roger pulled out a wad of flyers, most of them advertising local businesses – palm readers, tea leave readers, tarot card readers, and Madame Zignault, emergency consultations available on request. Roger crumpled the wad and dropped it at his feet, but Mrs. Kim was standing in the doorway to her husband’s convenience [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chap 22 – What Makes the Lake So Fake
21. March 2011
There’s a call for Maggie and she disappears, and another for Maureen, and she disappears too, leaving me alone in my cage with twenty strangers. I call them strangers because, although they are my comrades, foot soldiers in a common cause against something-or-other, shame drives down my head and I never see these others staring [...]
Continue reading...Dream Sequence #1 – Die Fledermaus
10. March 2011
I need to stop eating weird things before I go to bed, otherwise I wake up remembering dreams like this: I’m on a quest to discover the Lost Bowling Alley of Atlantis. I’ve been assigned this quest by a Lord of the Quests who works part-time as the operator of a creaking wooden roller coaster [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chapter 21 – Johnny
7. March 2011
i don’t think it overstates the case to describe our current system as tyrannous, although power here organizes itself in ways more subtle than the crude force of a dictatorship, here, the subtle exploitation of personal choice through media manipulation, gaining our silence by our complicity in our own enslavement, harnessing the forces of privatization, [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chap 20 – Jay
28. February 2011
Chapter 20. of Hogtown! A novel of the 2010 G20 Summit. In Chapter 20, Jay tells how he spends Saturday night being driven around the city in a police van, then dumped by the side of Rosedale Valley Road on Sunday morning. Go to my Hogtown! (the novel) page to learn more about this project [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chap 19 – The Accidental Activist
21. February 2011
Chapter 19. of Hogtown! A novel of the 2010 G20 Summit. In Chapter 19, the narrator spends the night in a cage in the Eastern Avenue detention centre. Go to my Hogtown! (the novel) page to learn more about this project and for links to previous chapters. 19. The Accidental Activist I’ve heard that things [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chap 18 – Behind Door Number Three
14. February 2011
Chapter 18. of Hogtown! A novel of the 2010 G20 Summit. In chapter 18, our narrator is strip-searched, sexually assaulted by police, and thrown in a crowded pen with other prisoners. Go to my Hogtown! (the novel) page to learn more about this project and for links to previous chapters. 18. Behind Door Number Three [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chap 17 – Eastern Avenue
7. February 2011
Chapter 17. of Hogtown! A novel of the 2010 G20 Summit. In chapter 17, the girls go to the Eastern Avenue detention centre with absolutely no intention of getting themselves arrested. Go to my Hogtown! (the novel) page to learn more about this project and for links to previous chapters. 17. Eastern Avenue We met [...]
Continue reading...Story: Four Billion Year Old Water
19. January 2011
It’s been years since I rode in a yellow school bus, the kind that bounces three feet in the air every time it hits a bump, the kind with cracked vinyl seats and a crotchety driver, the kind that can’t stop except with a lurch; and lurch we did when the driver stopped the bus [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chapter Sixteen
20. December 2010
Chapter 16. of Hogtown! A novel of the 2010 G20 Summit. Read a new chapter each week. Go to my Hogtown! (the novel) page to learn more about this project and for links to the latest chapters as they come available. Download Chapters 1 to 16 as a consolidated epub file (free, free, free) which [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chapter Fifteen
13. December 2010
Chapter 15. of Hogtown! A novel of the 2010 G20 Summit. Read a new chapter each week. Go to my Hogtown! (the novel) page to learn more about this project and for links to the latest chapters as they come available. 15. Kettled on the Esplanade We drifted down the slope of Scott Street onto [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chapter Fourteen
6. December 2010
Chapter 14. of Hogtown! A novel of the 2010 G20 Summit. Read a new chapter each week. Go to my Hogtown! (the novel) page to learn more about this project and for links to the latest chapters as they come available. 14. Spiderman After we sent Stephen on his way, I went inside to clean [...]
Continue reading...Hogtown! Chapter Thirteen
29. November 2010
Chapter 13. of Hogtown! A novel of the 2010 G20 Summit. Read a new chapter each week. Go to my Hogtown! (the novel) page to learn more about this project and for links to the latest chapters as they come available. 13. The Pale Blue Dot When we arrived at Ralph’s, the sky was still [...]
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12. May 2011
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