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Species of the Dark.

January 1, 2022 by Exangel

by Jim Meirose.

Doctor Moon’s desktop was never completely empty when sweeping at the end, for after use of the dustpan a faint line of contamination always remained. Not knowing what to do is a hollow place. So. When knowing many things is knowing nothing and where doing what’s next to do is just not possible. After every job’s completed there’s always a maybe that there could be touched up a little or this here’s not quite completed yet. Perfect completion of a job never is. But what to do next is never not known. Perfect satisfaction with a job done’s never, either. So what, so what. How foolish! Hollow dangerous places are around all the time. All the time they’re around sweeping by but most all of them mean nothing; and cause nothing and less than so actually because anything no one knows of is not. After this impossible job’s done I’ll; what. So what what to do next toward completing this impossible job’s known so what? At the end what? Everything ends and after then what to do next again. Always and always and ever for what to do next again and again and all over every time hiccup. Fattie! So silly be. Silly be. So silly so silly, be. Throw out the tentacles, get busy that’s why God gave them out eh. The animals. The animals. What’s easy for the animals why’s snot easy for you eh, there it is, there it is—a tissue please from those by that banana; blow. There you go. There you go. Now knowing what to do next can’t be because short of death you know damned well you do know, damned, and damned well, too, that you are bound to blow your nose probably many times in your life later and; hic; hic; if that is true then it cannot be true that you really don’t know what to do next because, it’s not that, snore, snort, hiccip; when you’re out there needing to blow your nose to get there you got to have done many something nexts first, including this one so; there it is, get up esh, so; hand me that banana now if you please. That one by the tissue box; by the tissue box by the next of the banana by the tissue box there next to the banana how how what do I want say it plain, you demand. Why do I always demand and demand shut up! Just the banana. By the tissue box there—the tissue box by the banana by the tissue box by the banana will someone by the tissue box by call the banana by the tissue the police department please box by the banana so this can be put an end to by the tissue box stop by the banana by the tissue box here at the end at last stop.

Face up—

No!

This was not how Doctor Moon wished to be found dead days later. Later. Days later. Yes days. Days later after. After. After. After. After. Always and ever there’s after. Why the world’s made this way’s so maddening. Why’s Doctor Moon’s desktop never completely empty he never asked himself so what, so what; Doctor Moon’s desktop was still never completely empty—

So;

He wise, an’ ‘n woke; my God kill the dark what’s this here in my bed with me again no ah thank God pillow that you’re there dark or no dark there’s always something to fall back onto every fall’s destined to be broken somehow yes yes so why demand something to break this fall anyway. The fall. The fall. Enjoy your falls while they last; babymen! And swat down these flies ‘til the last one’s still coming.

Any questions?

Good.

Class dismissed. Enjoy your long weekends.

 

Filed Under: EAP: The Magazine, Winter 2022: Origin Stories.

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In The News.

That cult classic pirate/sci fi mash up GREENBEARD, by Richard James Bentley, is now a rollicking audiobook, available from Audible.com. Narrated and acted by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio, you’ll be overwhelmed by the riches and hilarity within.

“Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges is your typical seventeenth-century Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and compound interest as he is wielding a cutlass, needling archrival Henry Morgan, and parsing rum-soaked gossip for his next target. When a pepper monger’s loose tongue lets out a rumor about a fleet loaded with silver, the Captain sets sail only to find himself in a close encounter of a very different kind.

After escaping with his sanity barely intact and his beard transformed an alarming bright green, Greybagges rallies The Ark de Triomphe crew for a revenge-fueled, thrill-a-minute adventure to the ends of the earth and beyond.

This frolicsome tale of skullduggery, jiggery-pokery, and chicanery upon Ye High Seas is brimming with hilarious puns, masterful historical allusions, and nonstop literary hijinks. Including sly references to Thomas Pynchon, Treasure Island, 1940s cinema, and notable historical figures, this mélange of delights will captivate readers with its rollicking adventure, rich descriptions of food and fashion, and learned asides into scientific, philosophical, and colonial history.”

THE SUPERGIRLS is back, revised and updated!

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In The News.

Newport Public Library hosted a three part Zoom series on Visionary Fiction, led by Tod.  

And we love them for it, too.

The first discussion was a lively blast. You can watch it here. The second, Looking Back to Look Forward can be seen here.

The third was the best of all. Visions of the Future, with a cast of characters including poets, audiobook artists, historians, Starhawk, and Mary Shelley. Among others. Link is here.

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SNOTTY SAVES THE DAY is now an audiobook, narrated by Last Word Audio’s mellifluous Colby Elliott. It launched May 10th, but for a limited time, you can listen for free with an Audible trial membership. So what are you waiting for? Start listening to the wonders of how Arcadia was born from the worst section of the worst neighborhood in the worst empire of all the worlds since the universe began.

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If you love audio books, don’t miss the new release of REPORT TO MEGALOPOLIS, by Tod Davies, narrated by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio. The tortured Aspern Grayling tries to rise above the truth of his own story, fighting with reality every step of the way, and Colby’s voice is the perfect match for our modern day Dr. Frankenstein.

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Tod on the Importance of Visionary Fiction

Check out this video of “Beyond Utopia: The Importance of Fantasy,” Tod’s recent talk at the tenth World-Ecology Research Network Conference, June 2019, in San Francisco. She covers everything from Wind in the Willows to the work of Kim Stanley Robinson, with a look at The History of Arcadia along the way. As usual, she’s going on about how visionary fiction has an important place in the formation of a world we want and need to have.

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