Dramatis Personae Heartless Horse: The Patriarch Mrs. Heartless Horse: The Matriarch Tadiscule: The First Son Ambuscule and Minuscule: Siblings Rarefied The Trembly Bird Who Flew Away: The Lost Daughter Grandvikings: The Grandchildren The Landscaper: Lover of Mrs. Heartless Horse The Hatcheck Girl: The Mother of Heartless Horse’s Other Child The Soprano at the Glee Club: […]
1. Have you ever wished you could wake up as somebody else? If you could be another person for a day, what kind of person would you choose to be? Why? 2. What if you could live as another person for a whole year? Who would you be, and why? What do you think you […]
Chapter 1 The telephone rings. There’s nothing else to do, so I answer it. Yeah? It’s L.D. He wants me to come over, but I don’t know. All we ever do is watch TV and fuck. I can watch TV at home and get myself off better than any guy. Two weeks ago, he tried […]
Where did the idea for Wall Street Noir come from? The idea for Wall Street Noir grew out of a view I’ve long held—based on nearly twenty years of working there—that Wall Street is actually quite a noir-ish place, a social crucible that is much more Jim Thompson than Warren Buffet. This runs contrary to […]
This is Not an Isolated Incident An Introduction Twenty months ago, I started a blog. At the beginning, it was my stab in the dark variation on a zillion other blogs: some fiction and poetry, snapshots, a little autobiography, a little porn, lots of links to recommended sites. After a few posts, strangers started adding […]