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II. The Scab Across the World

A lunatic vision of the wound which runs through everything

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The Gospel of the Scythe: The Wildman in the Basement

Feverish humours beset a troubled child in the middle of algebra class, snowballing into a surreal frolic through a decaying rural Schoolhouse, where a strange and wild voice calls out from beneath the floorboards…

Psychosis

In the key of F major, a smattering of jaunty piano noises jitterered from the tattered loudspeakers, musical scales intertwined with the crooning of a young Elton John. As the whites of Jacob’s eyes revealed themselves, transporting him into a netherworld of forbidden rollercoasters and vistas of rainbow translucence, Alexander brought that same crude device […]

Garrison Above a Conquered City

Crawling within distended iron bellies Perforated by manways and false exits I watched you labour on, Brother Muttering about production and timelines and overdue bills. Although the bastard of a foreman was nowhere to be seen you worked as if under his gaze. and although we both knew the miasma of chemical reaction would keep […]

Brimstone

Nightlife, Corrosion, and Communion with the Terminal Maintenance Crew

10,000 Watts of Illness

WXXT and the the Horror of Revelation

Desiring The Nothing

Showbread’s “Anorexia/Nervosa” as a cipher for the evangelical unconscious

The Imperial Beast

Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! It has become a dwelling place of Demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every fallen bird, a haunt of every foul and hateful beast

(Anti)christ

“There are three Powers, three unique Forces upon earth, capable of conquering forever these weak rebels… Miracle, Mystery and Authority.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

No Conviction

At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria, a young man accused of being a subversive was arrested and dragged before an anti-communist tribunal. Having amassed a large body of evidence, the prosecution presented the Judge with photographs of the man attending socialist gatherings and blurry close-ups of his face in crowds of anti-war demonstrators. Next […]