Category Archives: Prose

Telegram

Posted on October 20, 2026 by John Biscello
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Eulogy

Posted on October 20, 2026 by John Biscello

Drop dead several times each day and recite advance eulogies for the persons so explicitly shed. Allow grief to function not as barrier or backwater but rather a marker for diminishing returns.

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Merger

Posted on October 20, 2026 by John Biscello

Spend one day as the person you always imagined you’d be. If it suits you, do it for a second day. Then a third. Continue impersonating your dream-self until you grow tired and decide to call it quits, or filial … Continue reading →

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Diorama

Posted on October 20, 2026 by John Biscello

Make a shoebox diorama of your dream life. Install a macaroni model of yourself into this dream life. Place the diorama in a dark closet and let it sit there for days, weeks, years. Take it out of the closet … Continue reading →

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Masks

Posted on October 20, 2026 by John Biscello

You are about to kiss and be kissed. There is the matter of masks. You remove the first one, which is to say the outermost mask. Your lover removes her first one, and then her second. She is ahead of … Continue reading →

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Scream Collector

Posted on October 20, 2026 by John Biscello

(Excerpt from Worlds Last Imagined) I became useful. I didn’t plan on it but it happened. I began collecting screams. I had collected many silences and because the city was a quiet rainy city, its people quiet and sepulchral, the … Continue reading →

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In the Dark

Posted on October 19, 2026 by John Biscello

An excerpt from No Man’s Brooklyn. A new print edition of the novel, along with an audio-book version narrated by me, is forthcoming from Lost Telegram Press.

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Beneath the Underground

Posted on October 15, 2026 by John Biscello

Much love and appreciation to Beneath the Underground, a weekly freeform radio show, whose focus is “renegade arts of downtown NY,” as they featured one of the tracks from our recently dropped album, Morphic Trespass (a spoken word and bass … Continue reading →

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Vanishing Points

Posted on October 14, 2026 by John Biscello

Draft of manuscript in progress. Further Ghosts comprises stories, musings, micro-essays, flash fiction, and existential riffs revolving around the theme and concept of “vanishing points.” These disappearances are filtered and explored through manifestations of grief, memory, trauma, creative process, dreams, … Continue reading →

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Location of Crisis in Blue and Red

Posted on October 11, 2026 by John Biscello

Video montage excerpt from my novel, The Last Furies (published by Lost Telegram Press). THE LAST FURIES In this lyrical and speculative mosaic novel, enter the fractured worlds of an actress, playwright, and immortal poet, whose legend and influence create … Continue reading →

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