Anna Tambour  and Others

Winter
July 2010
 
Foodies arise,
for luscious fruits you've never eaten
A mysterious Something

 
"I hate quotations. "
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
"Convince a group of Gentoo penguins that it is your birthday and you want to treat them to some Minty-Fresh Export-Quality Aadi Velli Special Non-Cola Cola to celebrate."
Kuzhali Manickavel,
"A Basic Guide to Instigating Violence Among Gentoo Penguins in the Tropicool Icy-land Urban Indian Slum", Diagram
 
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, whre designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages they must occupy, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style version 3.2
Wise, beautiful, indispensable. Pages to pages, this is the bible worth taking to heart.
 
The main disadvantage of cesium as a metal for jewelry is that it explodes on contact with skin.- Theodore Gray, The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe,
by Theodore Gray, Nick Mann
Gray calls this book "the definitive be-all, end-all book of the elements" but I think that claim is too modest. This is what art books should be, filled with gorgeous pictures — such as the saucer of light blue liquid oxygen that would freeze a lapping tongue, the beaded artificial hip joint that looks made for a Sumerian king, and an "elegant vanadian sculpture, actually a tiny chip cut from a vanadium cylinder on a lathe." But even if the book had no pictures, it would be great. Gray is hilarious. I can't resist this quote from his first paragraph in Hydrogen (his italics):
Our sun alone consumes six hundred million tons of hydrogen per second, converting it into five hundred and ninety-six million tons per second. Even at night.
 
Not one to decline offers of free food and beverages, my duck thought it a shame to pass up a lunchtime treat of stir-fried mopane worms with snow peas. Belonging to the same family as the Atlas moth, mopane worms are Sub-Saharan delicacies that feed largely on the mopane tree and are harvested in vast numbers as a cheap source of protein and to serve hungry football fans.
    But like most things good for you, the worms are sadly overrated as culinary ingredients.
- "Budak", Worms in my salad
 
Any specimen the camera spots which fails to match its pre-programmed ideal of carrotness is marked down as condemned, a jet of air is fired at it with infernal precision, and the misfit is blasted down into a chasm below . . .
- Tristram Stuart, in Waste
Just when you thought you couldn't stomach another shrill, depressing, stilted and self-righteous "environmental" book, Stuart puts out Waste. This is a highly entertaining, deeply informative, and refreshingly positive look at how we live, with many recommendations that make sense.
 
Salvatore stayed with us until the end of the war. He learnt to speak English and to ride a horse and drive a tractor, and became quite a good stockman ... He was a wizard at rolling a cigarette with one hand and he picked up such a good vocabulary of swear words that even the sheep dogs could understand him.
- Judith Wallace, Memories of a Country Childhood, University of Queensland Press, 1977
 
More in The Cellar > > >
 

 
Bogged by blogs?
Anna Tambour stories that can be read online:
 
Temptation of the Seven Scientists
 
Strange Incidents in Foreign Parts
 
The Emperor's Backscratcher
 
Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cévennes
 
The Wages of Food-Play
 
Klokwerk's Heart
 
Me-Too

& Try
Bowl of Critters
an occasional snack

Now serving:
 
The Watchmaker
 
Science Fiction vs Fantasy?
 
Feeling Like a Man Again
 
Out-of-the-box Serving Suggestion
 
The Mary Quant Jelly Thing & other surprises from the sea
And in
Heliotrope Magazine
A long poem
Succession At Quandong Creek
 

 
But have you tried my blog?
 
 
Like oysters to some,
and like oysters to others.
 

In memoriam
Asher E. Treat
(1907 - 2004)
"Actually, Asher was an excellent dinner companion. Anybody who wears a loupe around his neck at dinner, and tells you how he finally trained his box turtle Mabel to listen to his commands (after 35 years), or sent small boys out to catch bats, and then explain how mites can only live in the left ear (right ear in the old world) of moths to evade the bats, or who would build a mammoth box kite and fly it half a mile high off Cobble, or who would play his French horn so that you'd hear it across the valley, Anybody like that makes an excellent dinner companion."
- Edward Perkins,
in a letter to A.T.
 
— A little Treat —
" The lepidopterist who seeks an easy introduction to the Astigmata had best leave his collection and visit the nearest cheese shop. "

Anna Tambour currently
lives in the Australian bush with
a large family of other species,
including one man.  
 
 
 
(Rosie, the beauty in the picture above, died on the 19th of January, 2006. Her tributes are firstly this, and then this.)
 

 
Qs  and As

some seasons preserved
 
 
Autumn
April 2010
 
bryophytes
 
 
Summer's end
february 2010
 
Quinces ripen early this year
 
 
Winter
July 2009
 
 
Bletting medlars
 
 
Autumn
May 2009
 
Cryptogams are rampant
 
 
Summer
February 2009
 
Called Christmas or Jewel spiders, this season they're February spiders, but just as gorgeous.
 
January  2009
 
 
Fresh from the ground, a cicada
If we had been made in the image of Cicada, what price gold and rubies?
 

 
Home of
The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Bulwer-Lytton
a place of compassion in a cruel world

 
 
anna_tambour at yahoo.com
Books by A.T.
 
Online stories

 
"She writes so far left field that you need binoculars to see her."
- Girlie Jones, Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth

Anthologies & magazines that include A.T.'s stories & Poetry
 
— PUBLISHED IN 2010 —
September  — Just released
"Gnawer of the Moon Seeks Summit of Paradise"
a short story in
Sprawl
an anthology edited by Alisa Krasnostein,
published by Twelfth Planet Press
with fiction and more by
Liz Argall and Matt Huynh, Peter Ball, Deborah Biancotti, Simon Brown, Stephanie Campisi, Thoraiya Dyer, Dirk Flinthart, Paul Haines, L L Hannett, Pete Kempshall, Ben Peek, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Barbara Robson, Angela Slatter, Cat Sparks, Kaaron Warren, and Sean Williams

September  — Also just released
 
"How Galligaskins Sloughed the Scourge"
 a short story in
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #46
with fiction and more by
John Dixon & Adam Browne, Christopher Green, Jason Fischer, Amanda J. Spedding, Patty Jansen, Simon Petrie, Felicity Dowker, Pete Kempshall, and Paul Haines, K.S. Conlon, Grant Stone, and Andrew J. McKiernan

 
Read online:
"The Eye of Nostradamus Summit"
(artwork by Marc McBride)
in
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #44

 
"Dreadnought Neptune"
a short story
in
Asimov's Science Fiction
- June 2010 issue
edited by Sheila Williams
& more fiction by Stephen Baxter, Allen M. Steele, Benjamin Crowell, Kit Reed, Chris Beckett, and Peter Friend; poetry by Geoffrey A. Landis, Susan Abel Sullivan, and Sandra Lindow; plus editorial features by Sheila Williams, Robert Silverberg, James Patrick Kelly, Brian Bieniowski, Peter Heck, and Erwin S. Strauss

 
"Cooks Tricks Nix Sticks"
a poem
in
Mythic Delirium - The Trickster issue
a poetry magazine edited and published by Mike Allen

201?
Crandolin (a novel)
"It's like it's written by a deranged chef."
- David Kowalski, Golden Aurealis winning author of The Company of the Dead
 

Published in 2009

 
Sky Whales and Other Wonders
edited by Vera Nazarian
"The Tin and the Damask Rose"
& stories by Tanith Lee, Erzebet YellowBoy, Linda J. Dunn, Sonya Taaffe, Lisa Silverthorne, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Mary A. Turzillo, Mike Allen, John Grant, and Robert Brandt

 
"a treasure trove of literary terrors" starred review, Publishers Weekly
Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award
 
One of the five best sf/f/h books of 2009 — Publishers Weekly.
 
Lovecraft Unbound
edited by Ellen Datlow
"Sincerely, Petrified"
& stories by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, Richard Bowes, Brian Evenson, Amanda Downum, Joel Lane,Holly Phillips, William Browning Spencer, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Michael Cisco, Marc Laidlaw, Michael Chabon, Lavie Tidhar, Joyce Carol Oates, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Michael Shea, Gemma Files, Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear, Laird Barron, Nick Mamatas

in
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine issue #42
edited by Edwina Harvey
"The Arms of Love and Death"
& stories by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Caroline M Yoachim, Jason K Chapman, Robert Shearman, Dave Freer, Laura Goodin, Felicity Dowker, Anna Kashina, Alex Kearney, Steven Saus, Ripley Patton, Dave Luckett, and Simon Petrie
 

 
Published in 2008
 
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices
edited by
Ellen Datlow
 
"Gladiolus Exposed"
& stories by Jason Stoddard, Lucy Sussex, Christopher Rowe, Elizabeth Bear, Nathan Ballingrud, Carol Emshwiller, Maureen McHugh, Richard Bowes, Margo Lanagan, Lavie Tidhar, Barry N. Malzberg, Laird Barron, Jeffrey Ford, Pat Cadigan, and
Paul McAuley & Kim Newman

 
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
edited by
Ekaterina Sedia
Published by Senses Five Press
winner of the World Fantasy award
"The Age of Fish, Post-flowers"
& stories by Forrest Aguirre, Barth Anderson, Steve Berman, Darin Bradley, Stephanie Campisi, Hal Duncan, Mike Jasper, Vylar Kaftan, Jay Lake, Paul Meloy, Richard Parks, Ben Peek, Cat Rambo, Jenn Reese, David Schwartz, Cat Sparks, Mark Teppo, Catherynne M. Valente, Greg van Eekhout, and Kaaron Warren
now available also as an e-book

 
Scary Food: A Compendium of Gastronomic Atrocity
edited by
Cat Sparks
Published by Agog! Press
"Six rules for boiling animals"
"Of rats and mien"
&
"But is that unicorn nugget genetically modified"
& stories by Kaaron Warren, Margo Lanagan, Robert Hood, Richard Harland, Paul Haines, Terry Dowling, Stephen Dedman, Deborah Biancotti, Lee Battersby, with recipes by Lucy Sussex, Gillian Polack, and Lourdes Ndaira

 
Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy, Volume 4
edited by
Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt
Published by MirrorDanse Books
"The Jeweller of Second-hand Roe"
& stories by
Adam Browne, Rjurik Davidson, Terry Dowling, Greg Egan, Richard Harland, Trent Jamieson, Rick Kennett, Ben Peek, Garth Nix, Cat Sparks, and Lucy Sussex

Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror vol. 3
edited by
Angela Challis
Published by Brimstone Press
"The Jeweller of Second-hand Roe"
& stories by
Joanne Anderton, Deborah Biancotti, Stephanie Campisi, Matthew Chrulew, David Conyers, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Richard Harland, Gary Kemble, Rick Kennett, Martin Livings, Jason Nahrung, Miranda Siemienowicz, Sean Williams, and Marty Young

 
EŞİK CİNİ 13
Two stories (The tiger and the mice  &  Sweat, Joy, and Thunderation) and an interview,
translated into Turkish by Nurduran Duman
Eţik Cini means 'Elf of Sills'

 
The Workers' Paradise
edited by
Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans
"Seahoney"
& stories by Simon Brown, Jenny Schwartz, Cat Sparks, David Walker, Rjurik Davidson, Bill Congreve, Rowena Cory Daniells, George Ivanoff, Karron Warren, Nathan Burrage, David J. Kane, Matthew Chrulew & Roland Boer, Robin Hillard, Ashley Arnold, Robert Hood, Susan Wardle, and Dirk Flinthart

2007
Subterranean #7
edited by Ellen Datlow
"The Jeweller of Second-hand Roe"
Aurealis Award,  Horror Short Story
& stories by Lisa Tuttle, Rick Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Joel Lane and John Pelan, M. Rickert, A.T., Terry Bisson, and a novella by Lucius Shepard

 
Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories
edited by John Klima
Order here or ask for it at your bookstore
"Pococurante"
& stories by Hal Duncan, Liz Williams, David Prill, Clare Dudman, Alex Irvine, Marly Youmans, Michael Moorcock, Daniel Abraham, Michelle Richmond, A.T., Tim Pratt, Elizabeth Hand, Alan DeNiro, Matthew Cheney, Jay Caselberg, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jay Lake, Leslie What, Neil Williamson, Theodora Goss, Jeff VanderMeer

 
Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
edited by
Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss
"The Shoe in SHOES' Window"
& stories by Karen Jordan Allen, Chris Barzak, Tempest Bradford, Matthew Cheney, Michael Deluca, Adrian Ferrero, Colin Greenland, Csilla Kleinheincz, Joy Marchand, Holly Phillips, Rachel Pollack, Veronica Schanoes, Lea Sihol, Jon Singer, Vandana Singh, A.T., Mikal Trimm, Leslie What, Catherynne Valente

2006
"The Syncopation Streak"
Polyphony 6
edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake

 
"The Beginnings, Endings, and Middles Ball"
Read it in Omnidawn's free sampler
ParaSpheres:
Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories
edited by
Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan

 
"See Here, See There"
Agog! Ripping Reads
edited by Cat Sparks

 
"The Slime: A love story"
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 19
edited by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link

 
"The Cat Story"
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #24
edited by Edwina Harvey

 
"There is No Rice Pudding in the Sea"
Fantasy Magazine, #3
edited by Sean Wallace

 
in Mythic Delirium
edited by Mike Allen
 a poem: "Trapped Words"
Hear it read by Alistair Rennie

A Novel and a Collection by A.T.

A Locus Recommended Reading List Selection

 His eyelashes fluttered. 'Oh dearie me. You asked, and I'm telling you how it is. I never lie.'
    I shot him a look that would pierce most people of my acquaintance.
    He looked blandly back. However, he seemed truthful.

Angela Pendergast, escapee from the Australian bush, grew up with the smell of hot mutton fat in her hair, the thought of her teeth crunching a cold Tim Tam chocolate biscuit -- the height of decadent frivolity.

Now, though her tastes have grown and she knows
absolutely what she wants, her life is embarrassingly stuck.

So when the Devil drops into her bedroom in her sharehouse in inner-city Sydney with a contract in hand, she signs.

He's got only a Hell's week to fulfil his side, but in the meantime he must chaperone her -- or is it the other way around?

 

The SF Site: Featured Review by Rich Horton
 
"...a wicked, thoroughly unpredictable romp . . . Spotted Lily might just be a particularly inventive comic take on wish-fulfillment, but soon enough it strays far from the beaten path...a dizzying but delightful journey through old myths and modern chaos, turning Faust and Pygmalion on their ear as it cuts its own path toward something like self-knowledge."
- Faren Miller, Locus
 
"I hate giving away the story, but allow me to say that this novel is not going where you think it is....teaming with genuine wit and humor... excellent writing...One thing I’m sure of is that it should be required reading for all those who go into writing fiction with dreams of great remuneration and fame. If it were, Tambour would already be both wealthy and famous."
- Jeffrey Ford
 
"One of the things I liked most about this book was that it was so difficult to tell where it was going...the book is so well written that for a lot of the time you don’t actually notice that it has a supernatural element to it."
- Cheryl Morgan, Emerald City
 
"It's passionate, it's intense, it's profoundly human and humane and honest, and, when it comes down to it, a hell of a read.
I was sitting up late into the night to finish it. It's that good."
- Keith Brooke
 
 
"This shocker . . . may well strike some
like a bracing tonic and others like something
a lot less palatable."
Publishers Weekly
 
WARNING:   The Publishers Weekly reviewer was generous with the plot, even giving away the end. But you will be disappointed if you expect to find that plot in Spotted Lily, especially that end — works of the reviewer's imagination, not mine.
 
Anna Tambour, on the strength of Spotted Lily and her earlier story collection, Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &, is one of the most delightful, original, and varied new writers on hand.
 - Rich Horton

Perhaps you would like to read
Chapter One


Published by Prime Books
Cover art for Spotted Lily:
The Artist by Norman Lindsay (Australian) c.1921,
copyright ©  Lin Bloomfield
Stomates on scouring rush, electron microscope view, copyright
© Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.
Book Design: Anna Tambour
 
 

and another
Locus Recommended Reading List Selection

 
M
onterra's Deliciosa
& Other Tales &

Introduction by Keith Brooke

         Temptation, indulgence, exploration and shortcuts. Love and compulsion. An ocean in Kansas, the Magic Lino, the real story behind the one told by Robert Louis Stevenson, a chef dying of ennui, gathering bluebirds, paying with candywrap. And the greatest story ever told -- by Asher E. Treat, of course. The glorious chaos of singing, prancing, perfumed and stinking, the dead and the busy, tragic and achingly otherwise--life itself.


"A winning, offbeat sensibility is at work in the 31 stories and poems that make up Tambour's first fiction collection, finding the lighter side of potentially sober themes and giving humanist spins to scientific ideas. Certain tales show an exotic spirit that puts them squarely in the magic realist tradition, while others reflect self-consciousness about the craft of writing. All but a handful of these stories are original to the volume, which makes a fine introduction
to a writer little known . . ." 
- Publishers Weekly     
 
"Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & could never be mistaken for ordinary genre fiction ...don't imagine this as high falutin' 'lit'rature' accessible only to people with advanced degrees. Anyone with a taste for beauty, audacity, sensuality, and wit can find much to enjoy here."
- Faren Miller, Locus
 

What about Medlars?
I admit it.
These venerable individualists (and I've known many personally) have charmed me ― so much so that they star in "Valley of the Sugars of Salt" and have managed to shove themselves into cameo roles in a couple of other stories here.

Table of Contents


Published by Prime Books

Cover art for
Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &:
"Red Blood Cells" electron microscope view,

© Tina (Weatherby) Carvalho / MicroAngela
"King Parrot (Alisterus scapularis) " by John Hunter, c.1788, National Library of Australia
Book design: Anna Tambour

 
Reviews
etc.
 
 
 
 
 
SPOTTED LILY
Review "food, the devil, and fame" by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy in his blog Criminal English:   April 6, 2006
 
Nominated for the William L. Crawford Award
Locus listing as Recommended Reading: 2005
 
Listed by Jeffrey Ford as one of "my favorite reads of 05 in no particular order"
 
Listed by Vera Nazarian as one of her "Ten Most Memorable Books of 2005"

Rich Horton review SF Site, December 2005

Cheryl Morgan review Emerald City  "The Devil in Sydney", #121Sept 2005
 
Jeffrey Ford review in his blog 14theditch Sept 12 2005
 
Jeff VanderMeer comments VanderWorld  
Sept 12 2005
 
Publishers Weekly review June 20 2005
 
Listed in "New and Notable Books" Locus June 2005
 
Locus review by Faren Miller, May  2005
 
Vera Nazarian, review
in her blog,  Norilana   April 19 2005

2004 Australian Science Fiction
(Ditmar) Award Nominee:
Best New Talent
 
MONTERRA'S DELICIOSA & OTHER TALES &
 
Charles Tan, review  Bibliophile Stalker  June 9, 2009
 
Faren Miller, review  Locus  Feb 2004

Publishers Weekly review Dec 22, 2003

Rich Horton, in  Lost Pages:
"
A Different Drum: Anna Tambour's First Collection Reviewed" Dec 2003


Jeff Vandermeer, in Vanderworld, November 15, 2003
 


Michael J. Jasper in Tangent:
Review of "Klokwerk's Heart"
January 15, 2001

The

virtuous medlar circle

thoroughly bletted
 

Guest Feature:
10 August 2010
 
Come Tomorrow
by
Jayaprakash Sathyamurthy
 

 
More Guest Features...

 
More Irresistibles
 
July 2010
 
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. II
translated by Pritham Chakravarthy
 
Intoxication by star fruit
 
Fruit crate labels and the lost art of agri-lithography
 
Alien squids vs. giant robots in tourism videos
 
Science for good or ill
by Chandler Davis
 
the new Heirloom Series from Aqueduct Press
 
It Walks in Beauty
Selected prose of Chandler Davis
Introduction & editing by Josh Lukin
 
Dorothea Dreams
by Suzy McKee Charnas
Introduction by Delia Sherman
 
 
 
Victorian Turkish baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
 
OCCULTATION and other Stories
by Laird Barron
 
Miniature landscapes: Fungal art at its best
 
Delish paximadia
 
The Whale's Tale
by Edwina Harvey
 
Aranya's Last Voyage
by
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
 
Pokky Man, a Film by Vernor Hertzwig (Excerpt)
 
Cat Mask Flames
 
Writer's victory over "Orwellian" libel laws
 
Pleasure
by Ehsant T.
 
Dafydd ap Gwilym: Paraphrases and Palimpsests
by Giles Watson
 
Kumari Loves a Monster
I'm not telling you more except to command you to go here. Illustrations that you must see!
 
Elementeo
"In Elementeo, elements have their own personality and fight with each other using their properties and oxidation states – Oxygen Life Giver rusts metals, Copper Cyclops shocks element cards around him, and Helium Genie airlifts element cards in balloons. Throughout the game, players create compounds, combat with element reactions, and conquer their opponent with black holes."
 
Louisa Burton's Hidden Grotto
 
Mister Gum
by Rhys Hughes

More Irrestibles
in The Cellar > > >
 

Daily Cheese, Bread
& Medlars
 
Making Light
SciTech Daily
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Talking Squid
Street Anatomy
The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form
Reporters without Borders
Tikun Olam
Too Many Chefs
Bibliophile Stalker
Budak
Bookslut
Clarkesworld Magazine
The Reading Experience
The Panda's Thumb
Corante
14th The Ditch
Tree of Life
Apothecary's Drawer
Asimov's Science Fiction
Futurismic
Tor
The Phrontistery
A Vivisection of Virge
Pharyngula
PhaWRONGula
Gode Cookery
Infinity Plus
Strange Horizons
The Mumpsimus
Banned Books Online
Notes from the Geek Show
Urban Legends & Folklore
The Urban Sprawl Project
Nursery Rhymes' Secret History
SovLit
Folklore & Mythology
Sacred Texts
Quackwatch
VanderWorld
Giornale Nuovo
Scientist, Interrupted
Book Crossing
We love: Book Design
Ratifiers for Democracy
Public Library of Science
eGullet
Persephone Books
Okinawan Slug of the Week
 

 
Previous Guest Features
 
The Apprenticeship of Isabetta di Pietro Cavazzi
by L. Timmel Duchamp
 
Nobody Did Debris Like Jack Kirby
by Jamie Shanks
 
The Multidimensional Topology of Department Stores
by Spencer Pate
 
A Dead-Guests-Can't-Say-No Featured classic
The Heat and Brightness of the Sun
including an experiment with the burning glass, that most boys have often tried
by Sir Robert S. Ball
 
Why I Like Nudibranchs,
Marine Slugs with Verve
by Hans Bertsch
 
Mama
by Bharatram Gaba
 
DragonBlog
by Simon Petrie
 
Garlic and Honey
a story from
Tales of Nasr-ed-din Khoja
translated from the Turkish text

by Henry D. Barnham
(a classic to enjoy rather than think you should have read)
 
The Zen of Ramen Noodles
 by Spencer Pate
 
The Inimitable Mrs May
 
Don't turn loose
&
Heat
by Ferris Gilli
 
MARILYN PRIDE
a glimpse into her worlds, and an interview
(This is the first in a series on My Favourite Artists who are still breathing)
 
'Tin Toys that Never Were'
an introduction to and interview of
LEWIS P. MORLEY
(This is the second in the series)

 
CHARLES TAN
A Retrospective on Diseases for Sale
a new story by him appearing here for the first time
&
The chicken spits the cook
or
 Charles Tan Talks
(an interviewish thing)
 
The Multidimensional Topology of Department Stores
by Spencer Pate
 
Anew Day
by Claude Lalumičre
 
Terminós
by Dean Francis Alfar
 
Hey Squirrel! There's an Owl in your Digs
by Hans Bertsch
 
Dialysis in Paradise
by Marilyn Pride
 
It's not like choosing the color of her hair
by A.C.E. Bauer
 
Horses and Others on Paper
by Ophelia Jasmin Keys
 
Mutton
a classic to enjoy rather than think you should have read
by C.J. Dennis
 
Garlic and Honey
a story from
Tales of Nasr-ed-din Khoja
translated from the Turkish text

by Henry D. Barnham
(another classic to enjoy rather than think you should have read)
 
Night of the Living Crickets
by Spencer Pate
 
a selection from 
And Your Point Is?
Scorn and Meaning
in Jeff Lint's fiction
edited by Steve Aylett
 
Terror Australis Incognito
 by Leone Britt
 
Doorways for the Dispossessed
by Paul Haines
 
Why my wife left me and other stories by Diomedes
by Simon Brown
 
The Apparatus
by Neil Williamson
 
Oysters - a few words
by Alistair Rennie
 
Erosion of an Accused's Rights in Sexual Assault Cases
by Tania Evers
 
A Day at Creationland
by Spencer Pate
 
Simeon the Monkey
by Lyn Battersby
 
Four O'Clocks
by Ferris Gilli
 
Let's Talk
by Ferris Gilli
 
A Stone to Mark My Passing
by Lee Battersby
 
3 Poems
by Robert DeGraaff
 
On Reading New Books
by Steve Aylett
 
Rough Trade
by Robert Hood
 
Beaks Benedict
by Ms. Gonick
 
House of Hormones
by Susan Maushart
 
A Rebirth of the Imagination
by Spencer Pate
 
Cat Flap
by Chuck McKenzie
 
 
You Will Not OutliveYour Copyright (and Neither Will Your Novel)
by A.C.E. Bauer
 
On the Blindside
by Sonya Taaffe
 
A Dark Lord's Lament
(his sorrowful sonnet)
by Barbara Robson
 
Songstress
by Jason Erik Lundberg
 
The Secret Origin of Spin-man
by Andrew Drilon
 
Martha, Jane, and Babette
a true story
Yes, Another classic to enjoy rather than think you should have read
by H. Rider Haggard
 
3 Poems
by Mark Rich
 
Predatory Instincts
by Chuck McKenzie
 
Cinnamon Gate
by Deborah Biancotti
 
The Soldiers' Mothers and Democratic Military Reform
by Brenda Vallance
 
The Don Entrerrosca Trilogy
by Rhys Hughes
 
Two Cranes in One Day
by Jason Erik Lundberg
 
The Dreamscapes of Edward D. Wood Jr.
by Susan MacDonald
 
A Very Long War
by Geoffrey Maloney
 
Four O'Clocks
by Ferris Gilli
 
Excreta, etc.
by Bharatram Gaba
 
An Outrider's Tale
by Michael Jasper
 
Illegitimate Sovereignty
by Wallace W. Storbakken
 
Sir Robert Stawell Ball's
Schoolchild's Earth/Moon
Plum-pudding problem
yet another in my dead-guests-can't-say-no series
 

Can of Worms
Responses to Features

Travels with a Donkey, by Ian Boyter

Travels with a Donkey
by Ian Boyter
In researching before creating his sculpture commemorating
Robert Louis Stevenson's
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Scottish artist Ian Boyter read the unexpurgated account of what really happened on that trip. More>>>

 
— Vintage Irresistible —
 
Scaramouche
by Raphael Sababini
 
Doughbelly's Literary Oeuvre
 
And more, much more
in The Cellars ŘŘŘ
 
 
 
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