david c. porter (read NTTN)
david c. porter (read NTTN)
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the worm does not die; their feet are of clay / writes http://gardenscenery.net / edits @keep-planning.net / buy NTTN: https://www.organ.fail/product/nttn/
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new Minor Horror! wrote about The Rider of the Skulls, a Mexican film in which a masked man defeats draculas and werewolves by punching them. it’s a film i find strangely magical, and in the piece i tried to figure out why. i hope you'll give it a read
today in Keep Planning, i'm thrilled to present the poetry debut of the one and only Kate Wagner, "Portrait of Myself as Gertrude Schiele", a vivid, startling prose poem of great power and immediacy. this one is not to be missed
#069 – "Portrait of Myself as Gertrude Schiele" by Kate Wagner (@katewagner.wehwalt.net)
new Minor Horror piece! this one's on Head Trauma, an endearingly grimy, downbeat product of the mid-aughts "indie" boom, about a guy sleeping in a tent in his late grandma's creepy, condemned house getting freaked the fuck out by a grim reaper in a parka. please do give it a read
today in Garden Scenery, a story about a difficult day, featuring an epistemological proposition. please do give it a read
new Minor Horror installment in Garden Scenery today, on one of the most bizarre, inscrutable, totally singular movies i've seen this year: Alvaro Passeri's The Mummy Theme Park. check it out below
it's October again, which means it's time to start up my Minor Horror series again, where i write about horror movies rarely written about. up first is a work by the notable german avant-gardist Dore O., whose films *are* written about, but hardly ever in this sort of context. check it out
today in Garden Scenery, a story about a room made of paper. it contains some useful advice, so please do give it a read
this is cool to me because it's the sort of thing that was a much more common type of "viral video" around when its time lapse actually starts, and also because almost nothing really happens in it
sharing a triptych of fragments very loosely riffing on a Donald Barthelme essay in Garden Scenery today. do give it a read, it's quite short
today in Keep Planning, new prose from returning contributor Eric T. Racher – i call it only "prose" because i'm truly not sure there's any more specific descriptor yet invented for the strange, dark, heady blend of literary forms to be found here. do not miss this one
#064 – "In a Darke Speakinge: a Ghost Story" by Eric T. Racher (@ericracher.bsky.social)
new fiction up in Garden Scenery today. it's about a man overseeing a remote site, and his wife, who, in his absence, has come down with a troubling illness. you can read it here
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#063 – "2 Poems" by Zachary Swezy keep-planning.net/text/063
really, really pleased to present a new fiction by Eric Angal in Keep Planning today. Eric is one of the best in the game right now and he's crafted a piece here that feels like being trapped in someone else's bad dream. please give it a read
#062 – "In Animal Fear" by Eric Angal (@mrzoris.bsky.social)
have two new poems up in Garden Scenery today. one is called “Miser” and the other is called “Asthma”. please give them a read
today in Keep Planning, a dark, verdant corpsepoem by the singular Logan Berry, excerpted from a longer work-in-progress on the nine stages of decay described in Buddhist meditational practice. for its briefness, this is a remarkably vivid, evocative work of macabre verse. please do give it a read
#061 – "Slippage (Forest)" by Logan Berry
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and of course, you don't really need to know anything about the bible to understand american history and politics; you just need a functional model of religion in general as a social phenomenon. the details only matter if you think there's something actually sacred in them – guess what, there isn't!
today in Keep Planning, very pleased to present this lovely little prose sequence from S. Taufeequddin Azher, a name certainly worth keeping an eye on, concerning, among other things, frogchildren, DASTKAR™ tea, and the tribulations of reading in public. please do give it a read
#060 – "getting everything you want" by S. Taufeequddin Azher
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Julije Knifer, Meander No. 5, 1960 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137525
today in Garden Scenery, three fictions about three men: a man with a system, a man with a steam room, and a man with a present to leave at a grave. do these men have something in common? read their fictions, and perhaps you’ll find out…
a couple new poems in Garden Scenery today, in which someone is trying to tell you something. it's very important, this thing that they're trying to tell you. why won't you listen? one is called "$100,000" and the other is called "Sand Castle". give them a read
wrote up some ideas for books that probably haven’t been written yet. if you've been wondering what your next creative project should be, one of these could be just the ticket!
a new poem from Rura Oilheart in Keep Planning today. it's very likely Keep Planning would not exist without the example and inspiration of surfacescx, so i'm thrilled to finally be able to return the favor and publish the inimitable, hallucinatory verse of its editor emeritus
#058 – "Hounderblood, Slake, Her Chain" by Rura Oilheart (@flakwolves.su)
today in Garden Scenery, a story about a man in the subway, going into a tunnel, groping deeper into humid darkness. thank you for your attention to this matter
have a new batch of fragments on writing and related matters (here, “terrorism”, the gallery arts, my relative awkwardness in direct conversation, among other things) in Garden Scenery today. check it out below
new fiction from Ron Arbuckle in Keep Planning today, about an introverted pastor, and some of the people he knows, and some of the disasters, natural or otherwise, they're bound up with inside his head. do give it a read
#056 – "MNEMONIC DEVICES FOR REMEMBERING NAMES AT THE LOCAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY PROGRAM" by Ron Arbuckle
today in Garden Scenery, a story about a village on a plain scarred by ravines. it’s called “Ravine Country”. check it out below
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