Someone had hacked intuition and was broadcasting on that frequency, he knew it — they all knew it. They had been coming together under a loose banner for an age now. Their groups had many names but the one thing that each and every member had in common was their fleeting relationship with sleep. That [...]
Where The Dogs Echo Part 1
The whole place seemed plagued by some kind of weird Doppler effect — you could whisper in a lover’s ear and it might sound like you were half a room away; that was why he had come here by himself. He liked to work in silence anyway, and in a place like this precautions were [...]
Virago Part 1
She looked like a killer; well, if you had fantasies about scantily clad amazons with guns strapped all over them she looked like a killer. It was true that the outfit she was wearing was not in any way practical, but then that was the intention. The servants of The Sand had not had their [...]
Sigh For Punk Part 1
Codewords and slogans — it was what he lived for. His fingers slid across the keyboard as if in an anti-gravity ballet. He had been straight edge for the longest time and then he had spectacularly fallen off the wagon, doing pretty much everything that could be ingested into one’s body without killing you, and [...]
Ghosting Part 1
Covered from head to toe in gelatinous goop — this specimen had folded in through some crevasse in the universal mind that intersected with a viral universe where an apparently contradictory set of manifold consciousnesses nested within the form of one being. It had been hard to pin it down psychically and even harder to [...]
Driftbaby Part 1
Driftbaby woke, eyelids fluttering to seduce the dawn, radio alarm talking in someone else’s voice saying end of the world is nigh. Aniseed re-stirs. Today is going to be humid with minimal cloud cover, pollen count high, pollution count double yesterday. She popped the ACE tablet in her mouth and waited for it to heat [...]
Downpour Part 1
The rain came unexpectedly — no forecast, no satellite imagery, nothing. Most of the roads in the area were impassable and some of the homes of the citizens there were under threat. Freak weather conditions is what everyone chose to call it, afraid to say that it might not be natural — afraid of the [...]
Clock Winder Part 1
Thin fingers with nicotine yellow nails extracted the fob watch from the pocket on its long shiny silver chain; he pulled the winder so it clicked once and then twice. It was a strange artefact, appearing as it did both ancient and somehow born of future dreams. It was not so much an anachronism as [...]
sleep less
some reverse sandman with a pocketful of grit
come to collect the shit from the sleepy
don’t wanna wake, let the dreaming keep me
this endless fight with morpheus, some caffeine fuelled skirmish
we opine like an endless whine tired in rewind
this is no sunrise sunset argument of light and dark
just a wolf gone rogue against the pack exercising [...]
