Continuing with preparations for the forthcoming release of my book-Dead/Ends-here is another exclusive excerpt for you to read.I shall also be making an announcement in the coming weeks with regards to a special contribution from an esteemed writer. More to follow soon.
FINDING / DOG
"When I was 16 I became all consumed with getting high-anything to elevate myself from the gray dirge of provinciality, anything to get me closer to knock, knocking on heavens door, and finding God in a ring of fire or the Garden of Earthly delights.
Sitting in a circle sparking a spliff did nothing for me, it had to be the total mindgasm of hallucinogenic submission.
I’d tried unsuccessfully with a girl I was fond of on my Art course, after we’d convinced ourselves some fungus in the adjoining field held promise. Unfortunately, it provoked nothing more than a puking session in the adjoining toilets.
Finally, at a party in some ghastly council house backwater, magic mushrooms were procured at which point without prompting, I chomped the little black headed veggies like candy, before swilling the gritty remnants from a cheap beer can.
An hour later, and I’m in the midst of a spastic freak out, convinced that the Cyprus trees across the road, are involved in a brutal fight to the death. I am consumed by mortal terror at the sight of this, & take flight, avoiding the valley chasms that are opening between gaps in the pavement, and marveling at my ability to traverse them.
Somehow, and it felt like days but could have been hours, I find my way home, and am met by the neighborhood mutt who stands between myself and my front door.
The little dogs head inflates like a balloon and I dwarf beneath its bulbous magnificence.
No ring of fire, no God, just a little sausage dog with a fifty foot head."
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