Die technik des sandwich-making dramas
Like all great American novels, this novel will have numerous subplots, illustrated by the plot-lines diagram, including five thousand words devoted to a sandwich-making subplot in which a sandwich is systematically assembled and unassembled multiple times until the desired sandwich is achieved.… Read the rest
Purple Prose All in my Brain
Dense, ambiguously descriptive style. Purple haze is sensually evocative beyond any precision. In the following excerpt the narrator is deeply moved by the exquisite beauty of some things and other stuff.
It was a darkish and precipitous time period; the stuff fell in large quantities—except at other times, when it was checked by a rather excessively robust bunch of air which moved up the the long walky drivy windy
A dark convention hall. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.
Enter the three Politicians.
1 Politician. Thrice the political cat fight mew’d.
2 Politician. Thrice and once, the pork barrel whin’d.
3 Politician. ’tis time! ’tis time!
1 Politician. Round about the caldron go;
In the poison’d Romney throw.—
Political Toady, under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Long knives pulled out,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot!
ALL. Double, … Read the rest
Surrender yourself to the random nature of the universe and allow yourself to effortlessly write Hamlet–eventually.
Hamlet complements ghost without the prospective diagram. A back works over our nonsense. Near the designer boggles the look. Can ghost consent against the choral? The dreadful electorate comforts Hamlet throughout a moderate apolitical climate change.
Within the master ascends the gender. When can Hamlet speculate under the fountain? Hamlet caves Polonius next to his relief. Near Polonius responds
Schlafen Ahab and Other Fiction Characters
Yog-Soggoth Jr is a native of the Vortex dimension. The dimension is home to Yog’s tribe of Old Ones, who devour the fried skin of their enemies, cooked the way Kassigtha used to make. While in the Human dimension he prefers a diet of zombie brains and root beer.
Although the son of a major Elder, Yog Jr choose to leave his dimension out of curiousity to see more of the multiverse and to experience … Read the rest
Gerald was born in 1949 near Dresden, Germany. His father, Mr. Krumplegumbledumpling, and his mother, Mrs. Krumplegumbledumpling, fled the East in 1951 under a moonlit sky with the barks of dogs resounding all around. As a result of the harrowing experience, Gerald believed he was a werewolf, and he developed a fear of dogs. In order to cure his son’s fears, his father had him attacked regularly by dogs—dachshunds, chihuahuas, three-legged beagles, Scottish terriers,giant poodles—all … Read the rest
Continued from Writing on Deck – The Metafiction Myth – Pt1.
After taking her pills, she went to the coffee tap (nothing beats real coffee), but when she pushed the graphical button labeled POUR, the lovely, lovely java that came out was decaf. What would she do now? It was early in the day to start with the whiskey-straight pills …
Utnapishtim on Life Support
I sent out a dove on the … Read the rest
A room full of writers writing
Gerald entered the writing deck where many of the other guests were already busy developing his myth. Schlafen Ahab was not visible to the naked eye, but Holger Meins walked up and down and around the tables.
As he searched for an empty seat, Gerald looked over the guests’ shoulders and read fragments of what they were writing:
Pip walked down the alley. He had the feeling … Read the rest
Nyarlathotep, Mighty Administrator of Ancient Health and Dental Plans
http://dominique.signoret.perso.sfr.fr/
Gerald pulled the document from Schlafen Ahab’s drawer and read:
As a member of the Old Ones community, one of the most important benefits you’ve earned is incomprehensible health care coverage. Cynothoglys is the health care program for members of alternate dimensions and metafictional universes and their spawn. Cynothoglys also offers health care programs for transmogrified Old Ones.
The Cynothoglys dental program (CDP) is an … Read the rest
I’ll have to go all out on some modifications, he muttered as a shambled off to the kitchen to rebuild his sandwich.
Ketchup, a Most Disappointing Condiment
The bread was inadequate. It would need to be replaced with rye. Many did not appreciate rye, but he did. He could not bear the flaccid mushiness of white bread. Besides the bread had been ruined by the ketchup, that abomination of condiments, manufactured for the masses without … Read the rest
