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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, I forgot: does this mean it’s poison or that we’ve found an elixir of life?

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 [...]

Janus Schmeisser’s call

Janus Schmeisser kept a vigilant eye on his dog, whom he suspected to be in cahoots with the Falangists. Janus was a 48-year-old native German, Dutch resident, and believed he was living in Civil War-era Spain.

The Road Grease – Episode I – A Simian Suffers

The ribbons dropped like glossy flyers from a crashing zeppelin, sucking up our mind void in a dreamlike loss of control. They were, probably, more like flyers than ribbons anyway. Ms. Lanyard watched, and so did Mr Pigskin and Mr Porkknuckles. Meanwhile the monkey was shot behind the scenes, without audio or video recording, without [...]