May 2011
1 post
We look out onto the sea of faces. An undulating mass of bobbing heads, hands rising above the surface and falling back down, the staccato punctuation of camera flashes like lightning. Faces rise to the forefront, then fall back to be replaced by shoulders, shoulders fall back to be replaced by chests, elbows, faces. The crowd is roaring, an unending two-tone dirge, felt low in the chest like the...
March 2011
2 posts
Mike headed home, headed to bed, sleep. A sound behind him–leather on concrete. He moved: over a low wall, ducked down. A thunder crack–a puff of brick-dust—a shot just missed.
“Give it up, I’ll do you clean”.
Mike crawled along behind the wall—hands and knees—no cover but the wall. Trapped. Popped his head up, eyeballed, ducked. Vinnie stood across the street—a .45 in his...
Science!
I invented it almost entirely by accident. Originally it was meant to be a new type of tumble dryer, using a small Tesla coil to generate an ionised plasma field. No moving parts, you see?
Well it wasn’t working and I was pissed off… and a bit pissed. I’d been drinking ethanol cut with orange juice and I might have popped next door and borrowed some of their ether.
Anyway, that’s when I decided...
