a pack of Lance cheese crackers and a sip of tap water have just triggered a sense-memory of licking a vagina
Archive for July 2009
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.
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.