![[d/dn]](https://i0.wp.com/daveydreamnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/oie_l521ir34eJuC.png?fit=136%2C116&ssl=1)
Category: Fiction
Of course, there’s no point writing oneself into a corner or being labelled a one trick poet. So I’ve started writing fiction. Actually, I’ve always written prose. Poetry is for – oops.
-
You click on the link to the publication page and move, without hesitation, into the second person. Somewhere offstage, a gear shifts. Oil lubricates. Your mouse finger follows its heart, caressing the pixels of virtual space, in search of an anchor. The metaphors pile up. Your session time now exceeds the average for the part…
-
Hollywood agent
•
1 min read
“Hi David, I got your number through LinkedIn”
-
Scenes from “Algae Rhythm” (2022)
•
2 min read
“I’ll tell you to rack off in a minute if you’re not careful.”
-
Screen
•
2 min read
Your windowsills strewn with corpses of too-slow flies.
-
Restless legs
•
4 min read
“He had read about this particular type of behaviour …”
-
The Editor
•
2 min read
No more tracked changes — this time it’s final (.docx).
-
In the Republic
•
2 min read
My flight had been delayed by an awkward incident during a brief stopover in Z—. One of the passengers — an older man in a crumpled suit — had been pulled from the boarding queue. Two persons, who did not look as if they belonged to airport security, searched the man’s carry-on luggage. From my…
-
Tracer
•
3 min read
Even at the very end, when it seemed almost hopeless to everyone else, I still believed there was a small chance they’d make it. I fact I’d held onto that belief — stubbornly, I admit, and without logic — since the beginning of their journey. Of course, I’d had no way of knowing who they…
-
The posthumous biographer’s curse
•
4 min read
How do you write the authorised biography of a person who does not seem to exist?
-
Introducing the DNRC Records
•
4 min read
When I was first approached to write the definitive biography of Davey Dreamnation—an invitation I was, obviously, more than happy to accept—I was given to understand that I would have unfettered access to Dreamnation’s personal archives, including his astonishing collection of unreleased songs; his musings in writing on the parlous state of the music industry; and his unparalleled…
-
Netflix series request: ‘You’re Killing Me’
•
4 min read
You’re Killing Me, a gritty, eight-part murder mystery based on the true story of US indie rock band Pavement, and the band’s deadly feud with Mark E. Smith of The Fall, should really be streaming now on Netflix.
-
Åsa Strålande in ‘Tanto’
•
13 min read
Tanto is a work of fiction set in present-day Stockholm, and features locations and practices that will be familiar to residents of that city but which may seem strange to non-Swedes (as may the dialogue, which is almost exclusively rendered in Swedish). However, the story also features several fictional venues and—needless to say—characters and is…
-
From the archives: “He carried oranges”
•
5 min read
I have absolutely no idea what this prose fragment was supposed to be about but I do know that it’s been fifteen years or so since I cared one way or the other. I was probably reading too much Borges at the time. The good folks at Going Down Swinging have cross-posted this piece on…
-
The Invention of Marzipan
•
16 min read
My MA (Creative Writing) thesis, a 30,000 word novella, described the invention of Marzipan in a fictional German town during a Famine in the 1400s. This paper maps its history and terrain, offering some hints as to Marzipan’s general composition and effects.
-
A Brief History of Marzipan
•
10 min read
I began writing the story of Marzipan: a Confection in the mid-1990s, the first results of which were published as the prose piece ‘A Brief History of Marzipan’ (New England Review, UNE) in 1999. I’ve re-posted it here for posterity. Or something.