red-handed

I have a story in the second issue of this wee, start-up literary magazine called Zeugma , out of Newfoundland. A bit about the launch is here . Pinch Me It is morning and they are moving. Still moving. He opens his eyes to windshield-flattened light, to Saskatchewan in spring, on the horizon all around is a colossus of sky, pressing down, seconds awake and he already feels it, hates it, this Biblical immensity without a puff of cloud, where trees stand strangled, twisted into the ground and telephone poles lean guilty like crosses in the ditches. His wife, Rachel, is driving. It makes him sore to think that thought, to see the words in his head. Sore and suddenly sharpened. “Do you know where you’re going?” he asks, looking out on the highway, to its diminishing point of oblivion. On the seat between them is a hand-drawn map, a crooked red star marked Auntie Della’s. “And good morning to you,” she sings back. Most unconvincingly. Trying to bluff him out, he knows her in an instant. St

And it is raining today, off and on, another damp grey day in Kingston.

This polite young man was drawn to announce a wedding social: an event distinctive to Manitoba, where the happy couple put on a dance to raise money for their future.

Who lives in the jungle? Godzilla (first known as Gojira), that's who. I sent this card to my nephew for his birthday.

Yet another rejection from McSweeney's, just in case you'd thought I'd lost the faith. Funny how the name signed doesn't match the name of the sender (assistants do all the dirty work). ----------------- Date: April 18, 2006 1:47:52 PM EDT (CA) To: lists@mcsweeneys.net Subject: lists / BOXING NICKNAMES THAT FAILED TO CATCH ON BOXING NICKNAMES THAT FAILED TO CATCH ON 'Gentle Man-child' Jim Corbett 'Smokin' Cigarettes' Joe Frazier 'Princeton's' Naseem Hamed 'Powdered Sugar' Ray Leonard Ray 'Steam Room' Mancini Benny 'The Tiny Little Kitty' Paret 'Ironic' Mike Tyson Evander 'Value Meal' Holyfield Thomas 'Hit Me' Hearns Hector 'Nacho Man' Camacho Raging Bullshit Gaseous Clay ----------------- From: Jordan Bass Date: June 15, 2006 7:56:51 PM EDT (CA) Subject: RE: lists / BOXING NICKNAMES THAT FAILED TO CATCH ON Hi Darryl, Thanks for sending this in. I think we're gonna pass on it, bu

A portrait of another fictional character: her name is Chixi-Shin, from a story called How to Read Cards .

If you look (you have to look), there's a bride in there, and a rather demure at that, if only she wasn't wearing so much red ink.

I just uploaded this portrait of Daniel Negreanu at The Art Blog Challenge .

This is a portrait of a fictional character named Victory Girl, from a short story I wrote for Anna Camilleri's Red Light anthology from arsenal pulp.