serlidge hedge and the red roundel

old quarry worn wall by the shaking of the earth the machines that brought down the house and left and the house was how old? we don’t know for we just placed it there, among the hedges overlooking serlidge pit see that when we think a think we make it real and real as it […]

the end of the music

sits on the floor. the cd is skipping in the disc tray. what was playing? the soundtrack to something. some game or other. came with someone’s copy of a special edition. came out of a bargain box at a charity shop. fifty p per item, or five items for a pound fifty. stardream’s awakening. or […]

frelingstaf’s walk

the old oblong Frelingstaf was out to walk the river was golden and in the sky a cloud on the horizon small like a collection of pus on the lip of the sky the water in the sky won’t fall and the ground is dust dirt what water leaves behind and dry gravel by dirt […]

etherbridge rock

stick in the mud writing names of the people who had been invented for this trip. Otherwise Pillar and Horsestead Thermedgenise. friends who never existed. she leans down to the dirt to whisper a secret. how heavy is her heart here on etherbridge rock. lighter now maybe. lighter now. the blade is around four inches […]

there’s a killer on the moon

you are sitting in the dentist’s chair. they are drilling a hole into your tooth. fingers in your mouth and the sensation reminds you of something. you are sitting in a chair beside your counsellor at school. you are nervous. you are telling them about what you like to do and about how there’s a […]

necroplasma (catch the sweating man)

catch the sweating man if you can. he’s shed his clothes in the halls of the ship. the boiler suit. the underwear. both stained with blood and the green bile. the things that he did before you began to see, patterned marble. a panel is split and the wires pulled out in the direction of […]

the killer bug game

there’s a killer bug waiting in a bin on the street. it’s like 2ft x 2ft x 1ft in its current orientation, kind of vertically sideways. in one of the other bins on the street is a hundred coins of gold. and in another one, another hundred gold coins. the question is. which one is […]

they made a heart out of a dog

they did it FINALLY A DOG made HEART the executive of the company was losing their mind. why do it? because it was finally to be done… of course. I mean come on guys, it’s the thing. The thing to do. The thing to do is basically fall a long way to the bottom of […]

ECHO (2017): so many of me that it’s weightless

so many of me that it’s weightless and awful to go deeper and only more and more of me palaces carved out of billions of years of ice formation and only me and gold leaf the generator that powers 30 kilometre trips, only powers up by manual cranking. and i fall asleep from exhaustion each […]

Liliguide Pollin and The Arc

Liliguide Pollin rolls around in the small chamber. There’s a noise and it’s activating the red signal. That means leaving the chamber. Leave the chamber and find yourself in oil corridor five West Barker. The chamber is deep down in the Bowel. The Bowel is a… It… Dominates. The Bowel is a part of this […]