Into Your Waters
I’ve returned to therapy last week. I had a mental breakdown in November leading into early December, one that from the outside would appear to be a rupture...
Reconciliation Prayer
I The way I sleep dreamless in the velvetpeace of you. How do you reconcile with some-one you love, that your scattered winds and over-abundance injured when...
the mystery gardens
I’d initially written the second chapter of Lavender Burning, titled “Sophia: Love Through Your Blood And Anger”, but I decided against releasing it at this...
Lavender Burning: An Ecdysis (Part 1)
I - She Kneels Down To Tell Me Our Name It is the day after my 37th birthday. I have just displaced a lengthy stretch of writing that originally opened this...
Before Death: An Incoherence (Part 6)
VI The most immediate effect especially in a positive sense my unremitting death fixation brought about was a radical shift of politics. Suddenly, the notion...
Three Stories: The Throat, Without Mercy, Still Life - June 7, 1992
Like my work? Donate what you can: paypal.me/langdonhickman1 Sorry for the pause last week. I just started a new job after three months of unemployment,...
Three Subjects: Huysmans / Araki / Religion
Like my work? Donate what you can: paypal.me/langdonhickman1 * Huysmans I've been reading J-K Huysmans for about the past year or so. I realized at a certain...
Short Fiction: The ID Printer
Like my work? Donate what you can: paypal.me/langdonhickman1 * The ID Printer I would have given them gunpowder if I had any. But I didn’t; what I did have...
The Superman (Part 2)
3 My efforts to write the third part of this piece have been a lot tougher on me than I had anticipated, truthfully. To the best of my knowledge, the history...
Before Death: An Incoherence (Part 2)
II William Congdon, “Cruxifix no.2” With awareness of death comes, inevitably, religious psychosis. There is the faith of youthful naivety, the one inherited...
Before Death: An Incoherence
I I wish often that I was capable of dispatching death from my mind. I feel as I get older comically cliche, a moribund and lachrymose gothic romantic...
The Superman
Wyoming
Overture I have a bit more leeway writing this than something like a proper record review or even a feature for a magazine. This is sort of a feature, but...