I almost deleted this comment that showed up on one of my posts without a second thought—it’s kind of the standard-issue blogspam that shows up from time to time—but then realized that, maybe, just maybe, it’s actually brilliant: and it’s not as if all that tramadol doesn’t corrected in the studio soma nowadays anyway! I’m […]
The brilliance of robotic pharmacy solicitations
Posted by Ben on May 24, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/fioricet/
It ends with Lila and Sal
It ends with Lila and Sal. They’re at the center of the action. That’s how it ends.
Posted by Ben on May 23, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/it-ends-with-lila-and-sal/
Rappitz
Varmint trouble in a small town.
Posted by Ben on May 20, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/rappitz-2/
Memorandum
Told Lavinia, look: the pictures are out, what d’you want us to do. Said Ell, we aren’t a young man anymore, we aren’t like we used to be. And things, other things aren’t the same either. It’s no longer like we can what wave a hand and have somebody here doing something’s for us anymore.
Posted by Ben on April 27, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/memorandum/
On Earth Day
The thing about holidays is, they’re utterly insidious. Evil? Maybe. I certainly wouldn’t be so quick to rule out the idea. Holidays instill a sense of complacency, a lukewarm, mind-numbing sense that everything’s gonna be okay. Not only official holidays (e.g., Christmas) but also the flimsier holidays, the ones who get their names on some […]
Posted by Ben on April 22, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/on-earth-day/
Remember Sunday?
Hey! Guess what? That thing I was going to write about on Sunday—you know, that neat-o feature where a bunch of people write one story, etc. etc.—has resurfaced. Go vote for your favorite sentence. (I’m partial toward “Hello anteater, welcome to the internet,” but I think one of the other sentences would probably fit better…)
Posted by Ben on April 20, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/remember-sunday/
Gone the next
Well, no, but this coulda been a post. Which, right now, it’s not going to be. Originally, this was supposed to be a highly informative post. A must-read. See, it woulda been fun. Interesting. Nuanced. Literary, but not in an alienating, egotistical way. It would’ve been a highly informative (and also, I might point out, […]
Posted by Ben on April 18, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/gone-the-next/
There’s good writing, and then there’s Good Writing
Jimmy Breslin’s April 9 column rocks, as usual. As always. It’s devastatingly brilliant. It’s clever and biting, but without being hateful or alienating. Anyway, point being: read it. You really should, though no one’s going to bend your arms backwards, hold a gun to your head, etc. (via Newsday: “Her memory lives as a bureaucrat […]
Posted by Ben on April 12, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/theres-good-writing-and-then-theres-good-writing/
Driving Blind (fragment)
Draco Carsten Muyskens said on the television, he wanted to get the people who did this to him. He didn’t say it, but everyone knew what ‘this’ was. He appeared on The Television, sitting in a wheelchair and wearing an expensive blue suit and a neat white mask that hid his face. When he spoke, […]
Posted by Ben on March 25, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/driving-blind-fragment/
Sweet Dreams Massacre: Another Fragment
When I first met Elvis we were standing, half-dazed, by the smoldering wreckage of a fire truck, our faces caked with blood and dappled with dirt. We both refrained from obvious jokes, I’m not sure why. Moon was there, too; she’d been riding with me in my car. All three of us were witness. To […]
Posted by Ben on March 8, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/sweet-dreams-massacre-another-fragment/