Tag: alchemisland

• Short story: Somme Nambulist

  To the reader, sonic partnership for your journey through the codex: https://alchemisland.bandcamp.com/track/somme-nambulent-i 1916. The violent tapestry of a red century’s troubled childhood is invisible beneath the bloodstains. The war which was to end before Christmas drags on into its second year of breakless harvest. On the shattered continent the rutting stags of European royalty vye…

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  25th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• Fragments from the broken wheel

  Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost.  Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

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  21st Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• Tube STATIONS of the DAMNED

  

  Oil-in-puddle cold fusion. Microwave alchemy. On-demand deities conjured in streaming seances. Speedrunning life. Premium tiers. Patreon for Gods dying from lack of attention.

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  21st Nov 2022

  alchemisland of Ireland, wyrd mythology

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• Rage, rage against the handling of the Blight

  

  William S. Burroughs and William Gibson injecting each other with radiation-infused heroin to induce revelatory fiction.

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  21st Nov 2022

  alchemisland of Ireland, wyrd mythology

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