Recent content by A W Eglinton

Novella - I like your thoughts, thank you. Crash is the book the man is reading, the one that falls to the floor near the end. Yes it is a way in but then all stories, no matter how abstract need a vehicle - i'm not necessarily talking about linear narratives here. There are many ways to...

No, to be honest I hadn't ever thought of publishing.

Thank you again Eugen for your insight. This is the second time someone has said that about breaking it up. I brushed it off the first time thinking it's just symptomatic of today's short reading spans, but since you also pick up on it I am beginning to think there's a need for breakages as well.

Thanks for the response, most appreciated indeed. As for the French if you scroll down to the bottom of the page following the asterisk there is a translation provided in the footnotes. In terms of the short version on this forum, well I would have posted the whole thing were it not for...

This is a fantastic poem! Although 'drifting' may be the overall theme there is a gripping immediacy full of texture and raw feeling from verse to verse.

Paper Plane (poem) there's a book called Crash with an obsession for steel: wire brushed metal, shiny, silky, sex-appeal taming the taboos of fetish into something playful and coquettish where moral disorder is allowed to seep through the borders and soak the brain in indelible nausea...

The Coroner (short story) Smoke streams from a ceramic ashtray. He takes a deep breath. The oxygen rushes into his lungs filling every viscous cavity as far down as his abdomen before climbing back up through tarred tubes into his mouth, trapped inside bulbous cheeks. He pushes the air from...

With the rise of Internet, never before has information been available in such abundant quantities, but its form is transient, fast-changing and the space it occupies is intangible. Printed books on the other hand are solids that stake a physical claim over space. For me, collecting books seems...

It's a pleasure to join this forum! Hope to find out about books I've never read and to read peoples own writing...maybe submit some personal stuff too. Here's to books! All the best A-W-Eglinton