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Mr. Mackerel

Mr. Mackerel has written 49 posts for Gleeful Sincerity

Truck toaster || A story about women and dewy mornings

photo credit: uli harder The arms of those tall squidly humans are flailing about; they occasionally hit the bongo. The liquid turns to blue, does this indicate poison or the elixir of life?

Month of the Mighty Moustache!

Mo’ Bros and Sistas gather here, Movember is near! Oh dear, what does this mean?

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To put you to sleep or allow meditation

photo credit: bolandrotor An exercise in relaxation.

A burn hole on the retina, with soup

photo credit: planetschwa Butterflies nibbling on pancakes. Ice-cream and syrup are inhaled, and sneezed out into a meeting of market traders discussing the price of flour, which will go into the pancakes. The scattering of butterflies lights up on the radar screen.

Lucifer walks the beach of Galway

Ever danced with the devil by the moonlight?

Philosophy of the peanutbutter jar

Sandwich: Mr Mackerel, does the ontological niche of a peanut butter jar decide its purpose as well as its identity?

Mr Mackerel: Sit very, very still.

Manifestat

Now, this construction had not yet come to complete maturity, as such properties had arisen within the Possible Impossibility, that this Something was equal to a Field of Potential.

Secret to getting rich quick

photo credit: DavidDMuir No introduction necessary. Everyone has a need or desire for easy money. Here’s a perfectly legal way you’ve never thought of. There are a lot of steps, but each step takes but little effort and the end result is a steady trickle into your bank account.

The Girl With The Sucker Lips

Combine the overwhelming sensory input and hidden psychodramas of a modern metropolis with the haunting trappings of a serial-killer thriller, then add a feisty and flirtatious anti-heroine and a range of within-their-walls intellectuals and artists, and you have the ingredients of Surya Dour’s larger-than-life debut novel, “The Girl With The Sucker Lips,” a huge promise [...]