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Weaponizing the unknowable: Quillion in the Wood

An exercise in knowing more story than you tell.

Lunacy: What happens if you write the same writing prompt every day for 200 days?

The results were pretty weird.

Vim Part 5: I have found the place

In which I lose my manuscript, and have to rewrite it all from scratch.

Vim Part IV: Three Wounds

A tiny bit of Vim for you today! Just a morsel really, but I have been very sick.

Vim Part 3: The stone is sharp

Happy Friday! For those of you to whom reality provides an insufficient amount of psychedelic, grave-robbing shenanigans amongst the rusting hulks and inhuman powers of the fallen future, I have another slice of Vim! ...Poor Grit the Quill is out of the snake-siege and into even greater insanities.

What if Disneyland were staffed by animals? A completely deranged pile of insomniac scribblings from a slow and sleepless Saturday.

Thanks to an unexpected bout of insomnia last night, I am currently operating with approximately 3.5 hours of sleep. I also have 39 pages of rambling, incoherent, hand scrawled notes for something called The Cleverest Beast , which apparently felt very compelling in the wee hours of the morning.

A Curiosity at the Establishment of Madame Z______________

I've got another bit of madness for you! For some reason, I've been in kind of a swordfish mood lately… (Is this what being trapped in an artistic rut* feels like?)

Vim Is the Color of Rust and Sun

( Read Part Two here. ) I don't normally post first drafts of personal writing, but I submitted an in-progress short story for last week's Operation Garbage Fountain , and, as per my agreement with fellow garbage-fountainier Lars Doucet , I am contractually obliged to write about it online.