John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an american humorist who lived in the New York suburb of Yonkers. He had a long and multifaceted career penning articles, satires, fantasies, as well as some genuine undiluted nonsense. He is typically cited for a kind of silly fantasy genre named after him involving interactions among famous dead historical [...]
or The (im)Parting of Friends at Unbanyokatulinys’s Eggs A new novel by Casi Cline At its heart, Seven Stories is a novel about the search for truth. A group of seven animals meet under a sacred tree called Unbanyokatulinys, and become fast friends. As they grow older, their conversations with each other become philosophical and [...]
Guy Girard, dream of Wednesday April 15, 2020: I have just received the new issue of Peculiar Mormyrid, which is devoted to the theme of fire. I read the editorial by Jason A., admittedly very lyrical and written in an apocalyptic tone, but I worry that these calls for fire, destructive and purifying fire, are [...]
“I tried one syllable words like am, art, it and off. The Egg trembled very slightly, without communicating any meaning to me.” -Leonora Carrington, The Stone Door I am by myself. I have in front of me a disorienting booklet entitled “Clues to MEANING”. The front cover depicts three people, one young, one old, one [...]
BY TH.D.TYPALDOS English translation (from greek language) by Nikos Stabakis I reside in a parked wagon standing on the sharp edge of a snail My roommates a pile of human bones and a blood chestnut tree From the holes of the walls we learn every day the news As in our spacious squares tumble spacious [...]
Open your refrigerator, and listen to its hum. Interpret its speech. TW: The refrigerator makes many inane pronouncements: ‘Not on my watch’ , ‘Our duty is to...’, ‘We salute those brave pioneers who...’ I try never to listen to its chorus of lies. SC: Doorknob for the winter. Snake click turn turn. Sfeeeesh. Rumble tumble. [...]
“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.” -G.C. Lichtenberg Length of a quartz stone shaped like a tooth—2.1″ Height of the flagpole visible from my window when standing in front [...]
Back in December 2019, a few of us played a game of Surr-prophecies for 2020. The results, perhaps, are not totally off the mark... January: Cruise ships become infested with juvenile hedgehogs & possum, leading to a economic downturn. An outbreak of Invisible racoon cause havoc in the Disneyland machinery, causing countless accidents. The gastric [...]
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As old as tomorrow... With untold floors of FRESH exciting MERCHANDISE, exquisite fixturing, a large, easy-to-use PARKADE OF THE DAMNED and a fine staff of ATTENTIVE SALES ENTITIES... It’s OLD MALL! This volume presents the results of parallel surrealist expeditions to “old malls” in two North American cities. Undertaken in early 2020, these “gothic” experiences [...]
