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Archive for July 2009

sense-memory

In Poetry on 26 July, 2009

a pack of Lance cheese crack­ers and a sip of tap water have just triggered a sense-memory of lick­ing a vagina

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Why I cannot listen
to rap music and write
at the same time

In Process on 20 July, 2009

Dear Lil Wayne,

I have been sat here at a desk for hours. More accur­ately, it is an adjustable table which I have by the side of my bed and I am sat on my bed with the table in front of me. My back hurts a little and I read some­where that this is not the best way to sit. Don’t worry, I’ll live.

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Story by Story: Brian Evenson’s
Fugue State: Bauer in the Tyrol

In Reviews on 13 July, 2009

Blake But­ler has been writ­ing a com­ment­ary on each of the stor­ies con­tained in Brian Evenson’s forth­com­ing col­lec­tion, ‘Fugue State’, both on his blog and as a guest on vari­ous other sites. Writers’ Bloc is proud to be host­ing one of the reviews.
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Is this why you can’t look me
in the face when you’re (writing
about) slitting my throat?

In Process on 7 July, 2009

- A fevered dia­logue. Internal. A fevered dia­logue. Let’s go external. Let’s go bal­listic. Go.

- Yes, it all makes sense now. It all makes sense. Crys­tal. Stab me with your pen to make sure that it’ll all resound with the same per­fect but unquan­ti­fi­able clar­ity when I’ve got a fray­ing chasm in the centre of my chest, will you? Stab me repeatedly. I’ll need a big­ger hole, not just some glan­cing flesh wound. You’re not try­ing hard enough, damn you.

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