It was a poor family’s living room, perhaps middle-aged in its furnishings—brown vinyl couch, lace curtains, the dull hum of the refrigerator cutting through the silence. Count Dracula stood in the doorway, narrating the long drift of history to the wife of the man he had just turned, consumed as undead. “I knew the future […]
Charles Bukowski was born in 1920, in Andernach, Germany, and died in Los Angeles in 1994. Most of his life unspooled across the raw edges of the American city—the factories, the post offices, the rented rooms with peeling walls and no guarantees. He worked jobs that broke bodies and wrote about the things polite society […]
Somewhere in the deep dark pit of indeterminate catastrophe that we call our shared Global history, we find ourselves endlessly seeking reasons, causes and inviolable proofs to explain just why our world is the way it is. Our linear, narrative minds are so entrained and reflexively conditioned by these visceral, intimate experiences of time and […]
Daedelus Kite 