Tag Archives: Prose

In the Dark

Posted on August 31, 2025 by John Biscello

I was vacant when he entered me, a ghost in a long corridor. In the distance, I heard low hissing. As if the world were losing air through a slow leak. I silently sang myself a lullaby from my childhood, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged darkness, grief, lullaby, mother, Poetry, Prose, song, words | Leave a comment

Final Cover

Posted on August 26, 2025 by John Biscello

Final cover for The Last Furies has been decided (thanks to all who voted), along with updates about the process of the novel and evolving audio-book version.

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater, Uncategorized, Video | Tagged american novel, canadian publishing, experimental, heather ross, hybrid, multi-dimensional, novel, photography, Prose, Publication, Surrealism, The Last Furies, words | Leave a comment

Postcard from the Edge

Posted on August 20, 2025 by John Biscello

On a chrome operating table, an umbrella and a sewing machine make love. Are about to make love. Have already made love. One or the other or the other. It is industrial burlesque in a vintage Parisian postcard bearing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged love, lust, moon, Poetry, postcard, Prose, romance, secret affair, sewing machine, Surrealism, umbrella | Leave a comment

Ballad of the Cuckoos (publication)

Posted on August 14, 2025 by John Biscello

Publication of my screenplay, Ballad of the Cuckoos, in Issue 8 of For Page and Screen magazine, now live.

Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater | Tagged ballad of the cuckoos, film, magazine, Poetry, Prose, Publication, screenplay, Surrealism | Leave a comment

Snaps

Posted on August 10, 2025 by John Biscello

Sneak-pique at some layout specs from my forthcoming novel, The Last Furies (Lost Telegram Press).

Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized | Tagged design, experimental novel, film, ghosts, hybrid novel, layout, Literary, lost telegram press, Poetry, polaroids, Prose, text, The Last Furies, Theater | Leave a comment

Trailer: The Last Furies

Posted on July 11, 2025 by John Biscello

Trailer for my novel, The Last Furies. Coming this fall from Lost Telegram press.

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater, Uncategorized, Video | Tagged canadian publisher, experimental, fall 2025, handmade book, hybrid, new american novel, Poetry, Prose, surreal, Theater, trailer | Leave a comment

Ephemera

Posted on July 3, 2025 by John Biscello

“A photograph is a secret about a secret”— Diane Arbus Two snaps from a series of Polaroid experiments related to my novel, The Last Furies, forthcoming from Lost Telegram Press.

Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications | Tagged ephemera, experimental, lot telegram press, novel, polaroid, Prose, Publication, vanishing point | Leave a comment

Sonata of the I

Posted on April 1, 2025 by John Biscello

The hatless pilgrim, roving this way and that, a man embodying the virtues of scat (in every sense of the word), roving through starched cardstock fields in search of an impossible flower and its stingy nettles—proud, pistil-engraved, the flower’s gullet … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged fiction, music, pilgrimage, Poetry, Prose, samuel beckett, self, solipsistic kicks, sonata, story, variations on I, what's in a name | Leave a comment

Beckett’s Sonata

Posted on March 31, 2025 by John Biscello

A hatless pilgrim, roving this way and that, a man embodying scat (in every sense of the word), wandering through starched cardstock fields in search of a stingy flower, proud, pistil-engraved, the flower’s gullet scorched by streaks of sungold (this, … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose, Theater | Tagged fiction, Godot's godchildren, krapp, malone, mercier et camier, molloy, murphy, Poetry, Prose, samuel beckett, travel, writing | Leave a comment

Outlaw Country

Posted on March 19, 2025 by John Biscello

“Outlaw Country,” an excerpt from my novel, None So Distant, published in Spare Parts Literary Magazine as part of their From the Desk series: Reports of fringy lore on lost highways. Point-counterpoint in a twangy battle of wills. Stay tuned. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose, Publications | Tagged excerpt, lost highway, music, novel, outlaw country, Prose, Publication, words | Leave a comment