Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book One: An Introduction to Dodgeball -or- Conception and Induction -or- How to Begin an Apocalypse, episode 9: In which the tall stranger, trapped in a darkness thick and clinging like living tar, attempts to steal Trevor’s satchel, then Mrs. Leeds is confronted by Sunshine, and finally Trevor sees how interesting -and mathematical- the exploration of magical ethics can be.
Another poem from my road trip, this one written while overlooking Shoshone Falls at sunset. What you don’t get from the audio version that you would get by buying the paperback & reading the poem form the page is that this poem is shaped, on the page, like the cascading water it describes. Many of the poems in both of my Worth 1k poetry journals are similarly constructed, where the layout of the words on the page helps build the experience as much as the choice of words.
Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book One: An Introduction to Dodgeball -or- Conception and Induction -or- How to Begin an Apocalypse, episode 8: In which Trevor finds that having Sunshine’s first-hand memories of watching history unfold makes sitting through a bad history class unbearable, then experiences his first direct magical attack.
Sorry this one is a couple days later than normal -though if your podcatcher is only set to check the feed once a week, you probably won’t notice the difference- it’s been a heck of a week. Been doing a lot of art & not a lot of audio work (though I did get everything set up for the launch of UTFBF-RoaAP, Book Two, next month)… This poem is really about how all the stupid details, conventions & requirements, paperwork, and government intervention in something as simple as me selling you a copy of a book or an original work of art are almost enough to make me not want to sell you anything at all. It is a lament that I’m not able to simply create without concerning myself with business.
With Book One well under way and Book Two beginning in just over a month, it’s time to start spreading the word. The following links are to the MP3 and AIFF versions of this 60 second promo for Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book Two: The Twofold Invasion -or- Penetration and Destruction -or- How To Make Love With Twins. Please listen, share, and if you have a podcast, insert it into one of your episodes. -Then let me know you did, so I can run your promo in my feed. Thanks.
UTFBFRoaAP2-Promo.mp3
UTFBFRoaAP2-Promo.aif
Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book One: An Introduction to Dodgeball -or- Conception and Induction -or- How to Begin an Apocalypse, episode 7: In which Trevor, in only a couple of highly dramatic plays, wins the dodgeball match for his team without even a basic grasp of its rules, then turns down an offer to join the school’s dodgeball team.
Today’s poem, from the second (and more personal and emotional) of the Worth 1k poetry journals, contains an obscenity. “Team building” games were just the sort of thing that desk jobs at corporations did to me to try to drive me over the edge. Sometimes they succeeded.