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Three Stories: The Throat, Without Mercy, Still Life - June 7, 1992

September 5, 2025

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

August 22, 2025

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

August 15, 2025

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...

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...