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 […]

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

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 […]