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Category: Fiction (Intensification)

Weekend Getaway

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| November 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

The game gives us a satisfaction that life denies us.—Emanuel Lasker ∞ “Tea or coffee, Sir?” “Coffee. Black. No sugar.” I’m on the phone with a market researcher. I try to picture a pretty girl at the other end of the line, but it isn’t working. All I …

Medb: A Disappearance and Reappearance (excerpt)

By
  • Brigid Burke
| November 13, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

I looked at him through the camera. “You have a secret.” His eyes widened. I continued. “It’s not something…bad…but you think it is…. Something about a confrontation with your father. And it has to do with…a female.”

Introduction to the Editors: Geoffrey Edwards – Writing that Transgresses

By
  • Geoffrey Edwards
| August 8, 2020 Filed Under:
Blog, Culture (Transformation), Fiction (Intensification), Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

As a fledgeling writer and editor, as well as an (almost-retired) scientist, I am feeling my way into the business of editing, critiquing, choosing. I have eclectic tastes. I read just about anything, and voraciously. I review everything I read—you can …

A Demon’s Escape (Based on a True Story)

By
  • Stephanie Williams
| April 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

Whether I chose to feel my emotions fully, or experience the depth of them — that wasn’t up to me. That was up to God, or Satan, or whatever it was that controlled me.

Daniel’s Dream

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| December 4, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

That room is gone. Or rather, the room is still there, but what’s in it now is so different from what was in it before that the room itself seems transformed. It holds a vast model of the world we live in, built to scale and rendered in exquisite detail…

See What You Think About ThisXIII — You must listen intently to the sound in your ears. It’s a carrier signal.

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 17, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

You must listen intently to the sound in your ears. It’s a carrier signal. The message is layered into it.

See What You Think About ThisXV — Yes. It was the Werewolf

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 16, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Yes. It was the Werewolf, he said. I ask him what happened.

See What You Think About ThisXVII — How much further are we going?

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 15, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

How much further are we going? She isn’t really asking me. Just thinking aloud.

See What You Think About ThisXVI — There was a boy once upon a time

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 14, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

There was a boy once upon a time who lived in a small village with his mother, this father, and his sister.

See What You Think About ThisXIV — This man lived once in a fairly clean house

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 13, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

So this man lived once in a fairly clean house, up along a good road. A good neighbourhood. This was the man I told you about.

See What You Think About ThisXVIII — Where did those men go?

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 12, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Where did those men go? What men? He says he didn’t notice; had his eyes closed listening to some music the barman had put on.

See What You Think About ThisXVII — The music fades out

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 11, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Fade out. The music fades out. I say you’re a strange girl. She doesn’t reply immediately so I stay: switch channels.

See What You Think About ThisXVI — Three black bags lay on the table

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Three black bags lay on the table and the telephone was ringing in the back. That’s where it was.

See What You Think About ThisXV — So in this photograph is a boy and a girl

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

So in this photograph are a boy and a girl. The boys sits on the ground to the left and the girl lies on the ground to the right.

See What You Think About ThisXIV — The point about the Werewolf is this

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

The point about the Werewolf is this: a popular conversation about categories of things.

See What You Think About ThisXIII — This guy works in a store

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

This guy works in a store. He has a bulging gut but his heart was in the right place.

See What You Think About ThisXV — And off we set with the black bag

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

And off we set with the black bag in the trunk of the car. The drive to the restaurant is some two hundred miles of desert, mountain passes.

See What You Think About ThisXIV — I was wrong

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I was wrong. It did change. How can you hear the cries of others and not listen?

See What You Think About ThisXII — I get flashbacks of war

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I get flashbacks of war. But I wasn’t there

See What You Think About ThisXI — A man up along a road

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Now see what you think about this: a man up along a road stood next to a tan colored car.

See What You Think About ThisXI — Letters

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Letters. The writing on the brown envelope said: photocopies as requested.

See What You Think About ThisX — This isn’t my natural line of work

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

As I mentioned, this isn’t my natural line of work. I just fell into it.

See What You Think About ThisXII — Every now and then

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Every now and then the old man would rock back on his heels. Every now and then.

See What You Think About ThisXI — You must listen intently to the sound in your ears

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

You must listen intently to the sound in your ears. It’s a carrier signal.

See What You Think About ThisX — March the seventeenth

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

March the seventeenth. Thinking about the body guard: got shot.

See What You Think About ThisIX — I spent two weeks in hospital

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I spent two weeks in the hospital. I can remember getting there.

See What You Think About ThisVIII — There’s a spider

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

There’s a spider crawling on the counter.

See What You Think About ThisVII – I awake with a start

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I awake with a start, and then slip back to this time.

See What You Think About ThisVI — I stab the cherry tomato

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I stab the cherry tomato with my fork; trying hard to not let it shoot off the plate or squirt seeds at me.

See What You Think About ThisV — People get killed

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 9, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

People get killed. Are hollow. They come up to me like clear outlines with no insides, no complexity.

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Metapsychosis is a project of Cosmos Cooperative, a creative co-op for people with "visionary tendencies." Learn more at Cosmos.coop »

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