Aug 12, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
‘Mother,’ that’s a civil-service category, Mothers work for Them! They’re the policemen of the soul… And now you could read... Alias Grace I Sing The Body Electric The Sound and the Fury Speak, Memory The Pale King...
Aug 4, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
The heavy man pointed the tip of his cane towards the rows of lights that were coming on, down below. “In the evening,” he said, “with this stick I take my walk in the city. I choose a street, a row of lamps, and I follow it, like this… I stop...
Jul 20, 2008 | Truth, Truth & Lies |
Looking around at the ornaments, it is only too easy for people from another background and a different system of values to dismiss these things as kitsch. Plastic and plaster, bright colours, not a single flower that is real. Yet to think in terms of kitsch is simply...
Jul 20, 2008 | Lies, Short Stories, Truth & Lies |
The Educational Experience What a wonderful time you’ll have, we told them, when the experience is over, done, completed. You will all, we told them, be more beautiful than you are now, and more employable too. You will have a grasp of the total situation; the...
Apr 12, 2008 | Lies, Poetry, Truth & Lies |
I was run over by the truth one day. Ever since the accident I’ve walked this way So stick my legs in plaster Tell me lies about Vietnam. Heard the alarm clock screaming with pain, Couldn’t find myself so I went back to sleep again So fill my ears with...
