Tag Archives: Prose

Disturbances

Posted on December 19, 2023 by John Biscello

Write Do Not Disturb on a strip of masking tape and apply the strip to your forehead and stare at yourself and the message in the mirror before removing your head and leaving the tape where it is (you, now … Continue reading →

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Snowbound

Posted on December 18, 2023 by John Biscello

Go outside on a snowy night and record the sound of snow falling. When you have collected enough audio, go inside and play back the snow and try to find the hidden silences in its music. Lie down in bed … Continue reading →

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Ship

Posted on December 18, 2023 by John Biscello

Be alone in small solitude in a room. Place votive candles in a scale model of a famous ship, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, the Titanic. Close your eyes. See yourself on the ship mingling with the other passengers. Listen … Continue reading →

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Jar

Posted on December 18, 2023 by John Biscello

Scream. Scream while dreaming of screaming. Scream inside a dream in which you find yourself screamless, the force of scream living without sound. Scream into a glass jar. Scream many screams into a glass jar. Label the jar Screams and … Continue reading →

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Eternal Return

Posted on December 18, 2023 by John Biscello

Ask yourself where you want to spend eternity. Consider eternity as noun and as a verb. Go into a bare room, a void sanctum of intimate dimensions, and sit with yourself, allowing eternity to feather outward as a flood. Notice … Continue reading →

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Maraschino

Posted on December 18, 2023 by John Biscello
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Technicolor

Posted on December 18, 2023 by John Biscello
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Jackdaw and the Doll

Posted on December 15, 2023 by John Biscello

Audio presentation of The Jackdaw and the Doll, featuring a slideshow of the book’s illustrations. ABOUT K. leads a double life. Timid office clerk by day, storyteller by night. But not just any storyteller. Transforming into a jackdaw, K. takes … Continue reading →

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Dilate

Posted on November 27, 2023 by John Biscello

Audio and text versions of my piece, “Apocalypse Now & Again” appearing in the inaguaural online issue of Dilate Magazine. ABOUT “This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends; … Continue reading →

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Process

Posted on May 17, 2023 by John Biscello

One of my most sweetly savored pleasures: a freshly printed manuscript.Completed at the Casa de Currier retreat (May 2023).

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