Professor Dagmar Itty mopped his brow And squinted at his notes – a cryptic scrawl. He cleared his throat and in a nervous voice Addressed the overflowing lecture hall. ‘This morning’s talk should really be about Cycloidal drives and epicyclic gears, But since I’ll be retiring Friday week I thought I’d stray off topic.’ (Raucous [...]
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Missing
Hot off the press: the piece I’ve just written for SPARK – a quarterly collaborative project in which artists and writers rub sparks off each other. The story was written in response to a photograph by Jim Doran. Check out Jim’s piece Ancestor Moon which he created after reading my poem Eclipse. I LOVE it! [...]
The Matrix
You know that bit in The Matrix where Neo wakes up on a bunk bed, head shaved, cheeks like rice paper? Remember how his fingers scan the back of his skull like a child reading Braille and stop when they find the hole? That’s when he knows for certain he’s no longer dreaming. I keep [...]
