Chainfic: Link #6

The Beginning
Link #5
Neapolitani 
“‘Well who is this and what is here?’”
His voice was still as high and clear as I remembered. I had tried to forget it.
Neapolitani.
I twisted in the air and heard the telltale creak. The Stench bristled at the sound. I winced at another burst of flatulence. Jack was down there.
“Licking its lips, it is.”
He [...]

Death

Dear Reader, I hope you are well.
Might I trouble you for a couple of minutes?
My poetry project is, to put it bluntly, about death. As a central interest, I am exploring attitudes to death in England today and I’d like as much literary imput as possible! I have here a couple of lines from 1) a famous elegy. [...]

Chainfic: Link #2

Matt’s previous entry here.
*Please click link for wav file then read *
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Sa’Tanic 
I had said, “I’ll never let go, Jack. I’ll never let go.” I’d promised him. I’d meant it.
I had let go.
We couldn’t have stayed forever this way – my ankles strung to a tree, his ankles submerged in the bog. It took all [...]

Those multitudinous seas incarnadine…

Oh you lucky lucky people. When I appropriate Shakespeare’s polysyllabic masterpieces, you know you’re in trouble.
I am sitting here, surrounded by candles…the night wind billowing my muslin drapes….I could be listening to Phantom of the Opera…but I’m not. It is an evening for silence… As the children of Heathrow roar overhead, I break daggers of [...]

Apology

Someone has informed me (you know who you are) that I have no authority to comment on Pink Floyd, or even to be a true fan. What constitutes a true fan? All right, so I wasn’t born when The Wall came out. And I couldn’t go crazy. And I don’t think the band ended when Waters quit. [...]

Literary Bananas

—UPDATE— 16/10/07
I’d just like to say that the popularity of this business has spread to the other inmates. I now find them religiously labelling their own bananas…
I’m sure many of you have taken up the advice of that random Honda advert. For those that haven’t, what are you waiting for?! An unadulterated banana skin offers the [...]

To Anita

Whose virtual and patient presence on msn made it possible for me to rant extensively instead of going quietly (but less interestingly) to bed.
If I keep mentioning Pink Floyd, you’re all going to become very tired with me, but Annie and I were discussing the brilliance of their lyrics. One of the reasons I so admire [...]

Sea

     Sidmouth
Some description I wrote whilst at home, getting used to living on the coast.
The sea is strange today – late afternoon sun making everything yellow-tired, and it is quiet except for a few disturbing passers-by up above on the promenade, or crunching through that narrow duny shingle that rises between me and the ocean. [...]

The 19.16 to Basingstoke

       A train journey from Torquay to Honiton.
I like this piece of writing. It’s so unlike my usual ultra perfectionist style, which is so difficult to write. This is full of dashes, as I tried to capture everything as it was happening. That crucial need not to miss any. I’d like to try this more often. Writing [...]

It begins…

I have decided to chronicle my mind. Or the Creative Industries course has decided to. It is, after all, a sentient thing. We had to wait for it in the corridor this morning. Everyone was thinking ‘bugger, I could have slept longer’. My two-years’ experience of student life has proved stimulating on more than one intellectual level. [...]