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Somewhen Else: Angels/Hauntings/Possessions

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Fictions by Adrian Benson. Mr Scroop Visits Mrs. Sericin. The Path Through the Archway. A Guardian Angel Explains Blood on Pavement. No Other Hope but You. The Gift from History. A Change of Diet. Fragments from the Ghost Apocrypha #1. Sheepish Man in Changed Clothing. A Short Time in the Skin of the Head. The Plague of Mermaids. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mr Scroop Visits Mrs. Sericin. Path Through the Archway (The). Alphabetical List of Fictions. Another Bloody Funeral Poem. Change of Diet (A). Soldie...

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Somewhen Else: Shipwreck

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Fictions by Adrian Benson. I reflected that there were more noble - if not necessarily less painful - ways of being shipwrecked. One could be the victim of a mutiny, the sufferer of an attack from a great white whale, the recipient of a jolt from an iceberg. This momentary reassurance that the creature was still intact gave way almost immediately to several clashing species of foreboding. What was causing the goat to behave like a boat, not a raft? Was it achieving this feat itself? The goat, undeterred ...

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Somewhen Else: Kora Kora Kora

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Fictions by Adrian Benson. And now it's my turn is it? You want my story now? It's quite strange all this, you know. Don't you find that? You never say anything do you? Shall I just talk then? Just take it from here? It is mid September. People stroll out from hotel sun terraces, out to the beach. People mill at kiosks, taking a mid-morning espresso. Hello very cheap very nice five thousand lira five thousand lira souvenire souvenire five thousand lira five thousand lira very nice very cheap hello. Hello...

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Somewhen Else: The Hat

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Fictions by Adrian Benson. Leathery, always there. As if twisted from his head-skin. It was his second presence. Although it kept its independence. Its removal in a room. But it waited and it lurked. A dislocated part of him. Imbued with its wearer's foibles. Now what tales could that hat tell. If allowed to speak its mind? When the wearer smiled. When the wearer sang. When the wearer raged. So did the hat. It was a fizzing mirror. Of all the wearer's moods. That hat has done its time. Moving back in time.

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Somewhen Else: Other Poems

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Fictions by Adrian Benson. The Song of the Albino Brain Wolf. A Short Time in the Skin of the Head. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mr Scroop Visits Mrs. Sericin. Path Through the Archway (The). Alphabetical List of Fictions. Another Bloody Funeral Poem. Change of Diet (A). Child in the Corner (The). Colours of the Garden Outside the Cellar (The). Daughter and Father Examine a State of Panic (A). Doctor Is Dead (The). Executioners Secret Facebook (The). Fragments from the Ghost Apocrypha 1. Ode from a Camel.

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Somewhen Else: Hopscotch Stories

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Fictions by Adrian Benson. However, the following is certainly not reasonably well known:. January in Tower Hamlets, East London. Now, exactly seventy five years later, Sharon McIntire, formerly of Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, pregnant to exactly the same count of months, but with her first child. The foetus is about 18 inches high. It weighs nine and a half pounds. Waddles back from the shops in her slippers. The amniotic fluid, which provides the foetus's environment, is being renewed every three days.

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Somewhen Else: A Response to Kubla Khan

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Fictions by Adrian Benson. A Response to Kubla Khan. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure-dome decree.". Note: Coleridge’s biographer, Richard Holmes, has stated that the Moghul emperors’ pleasure domes were in fact portable devices and hence could be considered to be the early precursors of the caravan. To the editor, “Caravanserai, the magazine of portable gracious living in the United Kingdom.”. That deep romantic chasm which slanted/Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! It captures the a...

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Somewhen Else: Novel Fragments

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Fictions by Adrian Benson. The Plague of Mermaids. The Packet of Seeds. A Soldier's Trail: The First Sight of the Forest. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mr Scroop Visits Mrs. Sericin. Path Through the Archway (The). Alphabetical List of Fictions. Another Bloody Funeral Poem. Change of Diet (A). Child in the Corner (The). Colours of the Garden Outside the Cellar (The). Daughter and Father Examine a State of Panic (A). Doctor Is Dead (The). Executioners Secret Facebook (The). Gift from History (The). I reflec...

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Somewhen Else: Paradise Remixed

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Fictions by Adrian Benson. Twilight is settling through the trees as he gazes down to where the street-light flares curve and evaporate and the unsmelt vapours of the River Tiber unsettle upwards and block the air above it. The light is dusking over. He inhales, and exhales. (There is always something to do.) No need to smoke: too much smoke trapped in the air. The beer from last night sitting heavy. (His liver invaded.). And he can feel two thumbs and two fingers fading away as the music decomposes, and...