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The factory
In the basement of the abandoned mannequin factory is a door no one has ever opened. Behind it is a cube-shaped room containing a box, wrapped in silver paper. The Bird King wrote the gift tag. What...
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House of Mirrors
What follows is a work-in-progress, my collaboration with artist Viviana Hinojosa. It works in much the same way as echovirus12; Viviana started the process by creating a picture, which I then...
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Lights out
when they switched the lights off it was actually easier to see what we were doing I don’t mean we couldn’t see before we could it just got easier we could work out the contours and where it began and...
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Perdita in pieces
Perdita’s confusing profusion of parts makes it impossible to know which way up she goes. She flutters beneath the camera’s shuttered stare, butterfly-pretty,...
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The Bird King in Love
1 The Bird King has fallen in love with a radiator. He adores her pockmarked skin, her neurotic arias, her coldness, her impulsive warmth. 2 Tiring of his dalliance with the radiator, the Bird King...
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13 circles of Hell hidden from Dante but revealed to the Bird King in a...
1. The Kingdom of Maggots Billions of tiny bald men wriggle and squirm through a derelict mannequin factory. 2. The Sea of Knives Waves slice and slash. Maimed mermaids wail. 3. The Eye Moon Envious...
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The mannequin’s left leg
Left leg I walk a sinister path. Ash trees look like bones. Dark here, bloodless. By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. In the abandoned laboratory they made perfume from...
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Ymir
Ymir used to be a big nothing; Now he’s everything. His hair is the grass, the trees, the reeds His scalp is the desert His skull is the empty vault of space His brain is telecommunications His skin is...
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The Dwarfs
Larval coils In wet earth Awaiting spring Time’s tectonic pulse The mourners wore bird masks And cackled as the coffin was lowered A troubling thought A gleam In the darkness Best not to think about it...
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Faulty dream. Not for sale.
It was a faulty dream. It was not for sale. It yawned, or the darkness yawned. It stretched. Limbs rooted around. It couldn’t contain itself. It found a mouth, teeth, a tongue. It tried words:...
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His house
His house incubates memories. As he sleeps, they hatch. His house is neither here nor there. It occupies a space between watchfulness and insomnia. Grey birds nest on its roof. His house is a refuge...
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The Glitch Witch
The Glitch Witch watches life through a cracked lens. Her breasts are heavy with love gone sour. No one knows her real name. The Glitch Witch runs in and out of headlights, all along the last highway....
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Once upon a tweet
Once upon a tweet there was a time but it was limited & the characters were few & cramped together & death beckoned impatiently as I typed. Once upon a tweet there was a man who tried to...
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Six poetic deaths
1. The poet dived for words only in the most dangerous waters. One morning, his body washed up on the beach of an undiscovered continent. 2. Her poems were a furnace, into which she threw his letters,...
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The factory
There is no way of getting into the factory. But things do get out: cats, curses, mannequins. The factory is owned by a man called Mr Vogel. He is sometimes seen cycling to work, back hunched,...
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At the beginning of the end
At the beginning of the end, the mannequins stopped playing dead. At the beginning of the end, words cracked in two and Hell poured out of them. At the beginning of the end, all the lights went out and...
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Eve
When God blessed creation, a ewe gave birth to Adam. When he cursed Satan, Eve hatched from a crocodile’s egg. —– In naming the animals, Adam marked them for death. His own name was a slow fire. Eve’s...
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Painting
Sitting before her mirror, she paints herself. Her eye tracks the external workings of her mind, the ghost made flesh in wrinkles and a faint frown, her mind spiralling down a staircase of itself,...
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A love letter from the Bird King
The Bird King leaves a love letter for you on a bedside table in a house that has not yet been built. —– The Bird King’s memories change every day. The past is a city forever under construction....
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13 enigmatic scenes from a TV murder mystery that everyone has seen but no...
1. The house, stamped white on slate sky. Behind the windows, all the rooms are filled with water. A drowned man in a dinner suit floats by. 2. The revolver lies on the pillow of an unmade bed. The...
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