I’m a good friend of Kris Saknussemm. In fact, to come completely clean, I consider him one of my best friends. Kris Saknussemm is the internationally acclaimed author of Zanesville, Private Midnight, Enigmatic Pilot and the short story collection Sinister Miniatures. His work has appeared in Playboy, Nerve, The Boston Review, The Hudson Review, The […]
Category Archives: Fiction
Interview – Lisa talks to Kris Saknussemm about life, love and Reverend America
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Broken Things by Padrika Tarrant – Stories that will never leave you.
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Until today, I always pushed a pram, just in case I find a baby. People lose them all the time, don’t they, so the chances are some day I’ll get lucky and pick one up. I’m kind and ever so patient. A baby wouldn’t be badly of with me, I don’t think. I save stuff, keep safe what nobody else […]
A Heaven of Others – Joshua Cohen on ending up in the wrong place at the right time.
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How did I get here, if I am still an I? If how and where is here? can still be asked and why? He got here how he got here. How anyone gets here. How and where it is not my domain, this answering of questions. It is unbecoming. Truly insulting. Beneath me. Below. Rather it is I, […]
Short story : A work in progress
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Hello everyone, Out of interest, I thought I would post the first draft of a short story I am currently working on. This has been read by 3 of my feedback partners and will be sent out to magazines for publication soon. Please feel very free to give comments. This is my work. I’m interested […]
Le Zapororgue #10 Publishes ‘Three Little Ducks’
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My short story ‘Three Little Ducks’ was published in Le Zapororgue #10. You can pick up a copy of the magazine here. I was very proud to be published in this magazine. Not only is its talented publisher (Seb Doubinsky) a great friend of mine, but he is also a brilliant writer and literary activist. […]
Novel Excerpt – Prolix (Working Title) 4
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Daniel “Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognising that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.” Cyril Joad The cavernous thrill passing through Daniel told him this is the day. This of […]
5923 Quarterly Publishes ‘Everybody’s Talking’
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5923 Quarterly Literary Journal have just published my short story ‘Everybody’s Talking’. This is a story based on the Harry Nilsson song of the same name. It’s an experimental piece that I wrote paying homage to the very great Susan Sontag who is a stylistic guru of mine. Its a story about the deterioration of […]
Novel Excerpt – Prolix (working title) 3
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Rose The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Dawkins, R Rose Staff, currently the object of desire for two men in her field of influence, both of which planned to change their lives dramatically around her, used to be a beautiful woman. That […]
Novel Excerpt – Prolix (Working Title) 2
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Please enjoy this second excerpt from my novel in progress, and allow me to remind you that this is a first draft. As such, expect a great deal of this to change – including the very overt and grateful nod to the great Zadie Smith. Thanks, Lisa. Alex 218 The Greeks as interpreters – When […]
Novel Excerpt – Prolix (working Title)
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John “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” Immanuel Kant John heard the back door slam and with a Pavlovian response his body sighed tension. This set his upper buttocks free, returned his chest and neck from pyramid-brick-state to house-brick-state, […]
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