Author Archives: flawnt

life savers

metazen editors working as a team to save body and soul of an author after rejection by another literary magazine. notice how seamlessly they collaborate to guarantee publication.

07:46 Nuuk, Greenland

The people queued up to get their parcels or post them as they had always done. Nobody thought of bending the line into a coil so that the people could warm up.

Halloween Hustler

Nobody’s there to kick us out of paradise because there’s no god. Eva’s turned feminist and the serpent is in online marketing now.

06:46 hrs – La Plata, Argentina

When the winter holidays began, mother stood by the window in the living room for long periods of time, a hot cup of tea in hand, sipping it in long intervals.

Cannon Boy

i know what i’ll do on saturday: sleep and then some more. write a few hundred words. rip them up. eat some apple pie. throw on a fedora and feel like a diva.

05:46 St Johns, Newfoundland

He wore a very ugly tie today and enjoyed the attention and the disbelief that moved across Sedna’s face like a moth.

Flash Fictional Pointillism

I am interested in writing a novel from flash and I’m not aware of any novelist I admire who has taken that route.

04:46 hrs – Habana, Cuba

I look out the window of my hut at las putas, and I stroke my cock, and there’s no ambiguity there. Ambiguity is the death of the revolution.

The Fountain of Youth

we don’t talk much about another important effect of metazen the mag, especially for the aging writer: the magazine will keep you eternally young if you read every one of its installments. a fountain of youth.

One Thousand Shipwrecked Penguins

just now i came out of hot tub – i don’t often take baths i prefer the invigorating almost taunting effect of a shower…and it made me realise that i, and this blog by inclusion, need a change. so here we are.