On Tragedy
I As humans, we are most often confronted with that which we are least capable of facing: tragedy. We will do everything in our power to convert those...
On Psychosis
I Asterion, half-man, half-bull, was born to Pasiphae, daughter of Helios the living sun, not as a curse to himself or even to her but instead to Minos, king...
Craft & Concept #1: Poetry and Mystery
Literature, be it poetry or prose, can broadly be broken internally into poetry and mystery as far as how I look at it. You'll note immediately that this...
On C-PTSD
I I've written a great deal over the years about my struggles with PTSD, or at least the discreet events which leave that lingering shadow. I struggle, as I...
The Width of a Human Heart: Days of the Angel: The Epistles of St. Robert (part 2)
What follows is the back half of the chapter you saw recently. My brain is reassembling itself and words are flowing like water. God bless these ciphers that...
The Width of a Human Heart: Days of the Angel: The Epistles of St. Robert
What follows is a chapter from my upcoming novel The Width of a Human Heart. The whole novel is a cipher for so much of my own life, buried and unburied, but...
The Burning Down / Sleepless Waters
I set fire to 2025. What an awful year it’s been; from being fired to a summer sinking into my head in unemployment, the struggles with my lungs and the...
Relief, A Flightless Bird
Beyond the haggard fires these daggered thieves with their ridiculous mirthless faces and miserable half-smiles hurl my way, beneath the thunderstorms of...
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