Lovecraftian Acrostics by Jason Abdelhadi

Game Played on the Night of October 12th, 2016 at St. John’s (King’s) Churchyard, 271 North Main Street, Providence, Rhode Island Poe knew of this place, & is said to have wandered among its whispering willows during his visits here 90 years ago. Last August I shewed this place to two guests, & we all [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:19+00:00October 14th, 2016|Essay|

Advice from Palmyra

Advice from Palmyra is part of a larger collective project from some of us in Ottawa called "Chimera in IPA". The results are below. - Jason Abdelhadi From Chimera in IPA #2  Chimera.IPA@gmail.com Save

2016-11-30T02:44:12+00:00September 27th, 2016|News|

The Cenote

Night passes and I wake from an imageless slumber. I push myself out from my dark water cocoon and jerkily climb up the side of the Sacred Cenote, up towards the sun and its warmth. My worm-like body leaves behind a sticky sweet residue, and I sense each new step through the six slits of [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:19+00:00September 20th, 2016|Prose|

Surrealize the Pipeline

Surrealist game in solidarity with the indigenous protectors and their allies at Standing Rock Sioux who are refusing the imposition of an environmentally catastrophic pipeline across their land. http://sacredstonecamp.org/ Questions 1. Instead of being built across Sioux land, where should the pipeline be rerouted? 2. Instead of oil, what should be pumped through [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:20+00:00September 5th, 2016|Games|

AGAIN BE AWARE by Arthur Spota

ARIES HOROSCOPE: (As translated from Japanese) AGAIN BE AWARE Keep your fingertips, dear Aries.  Keep your spirit so that it will find this spot in the soup, vacuum the water cooler tellin' jokes and so become rather irritated by everyone else; concentrate on a roll, and exercise a little patience, who knows what comes of [...]

2016-11-30T02:47:13+00:00August 29th, 2016|Prose|

On Certain Possibilities of the Irrational Embellishment of Living Surrealism by Jason Abdelhadi

It's of note that today the monster is accruing yet more status in the shared mythos of rebellion. As before, it retains the honorable title of destroyer of men and cities, and also its long history as a collectible, destined for some hellish cabinet. Yet it has come to reveal another counterfactual power against the [...]

2020-01-04T16:25:57+00:00August 15th, 2016|Essay|

The Head of Doctor Faustus as He Appeared By Chance in the Dirt by Jason Abdelhadi

 [BENVOLIO strikes off FAUSTUS' head.]         His head is off. - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe On the evening of Friday, July 29th 2016, I was walking on Mackenzie Avenue in downtown Ottawa, directly in front of a Tudor-Gothic monstrosity called the Connaught Building, which houses the Canadian Revenue Agency. This part of the city [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:20+00:00August 6th, 2016|Essay|

a storehouse full of athletes

Collaborative game with Stephen Kirin, Karl Howeth, Jason Abdelhadi, Casi Cline, Maurizio Brancaleoni, Maria Brothers, Dale Houstman, and Craig S Wilson. The circus folk were lonely between the trees, and they leaned against the wall they had built from sloughed off skin, and argued about whether or not leaves were edible, and should they test [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:20+00:00August 2nd, 2016|Games|

Poems by TD Typaldos

PENITENTIARY'S GATE As a wolf I'm coming near to you to devour your heart Lie down at your ankles as a dead dove Camel rider to Sivas oasis I‘m folding my turban - a wish into     the cosmic excommunication's sandstorm As you are running you can learn how useful walking is From A Galaxy of [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:20+00:00July 11th, 2016|Poetry|

BULB – Word Association Game

Maurizio Brancaleoni BULB(E)'S GIRLFRIEND. Unfinished opening-ending one-chapter post-story (A could-have-been-a-novellette prose minipoemette ). These light bulbs had been prying into my viscera for an indefinite amount of time, heirs to a condition of slavery. He is intralatched onto mental representations of potential fiancées. This guy, Bulbe, a multi-talented lover's spat colourist and indoor farmer, a [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:20+00:00June 17th, 2016|Games|
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