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Tag Archives: stories
Set Course
The love I don’t get to live with her, I am going to have to live and attend, sublimely, through fiction, there are only so many lives to choose from, to assume gracefully, so many courses upon which the sun … Continue reading →
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Tagged fiction, John Biscello, love, passion, poem, romance, stories, sun
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Fruit
(Story from Freeze Tag.) L & S was a candy store and newsstand located on the corner of 60th St. and 18th Ave. L & S, which stood for Louie & Son, was owned by Louie Varinella: a burly, slightly … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, family, fear, fiction, Freeze Tag, John Biscello, love, stories, urban
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Whet
It’s funny how lust secretes its stories through text whetting metaphors.
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Tagged haiku, John Biscello, lust, metaphor, passion, poem, sensuality, stories, touch
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Denis Johnson’s Sea Maiden
Review of Denis Johnson’s The Largesse of the Sea Maiden appearing in Riot Material. “Picture the sibilant music of blood-red sand shifting from one bulbous half of the hourglass to the other. Or black-and-white film footage, bearing a scarred geography … Continue reading →
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Tagged addiction, Denis Johnson, jazzy, John Biscello, literature, modern mystic, novel, Prose, Review, riot material, stories, storyteller, swan song, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
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Feelism
Feelism: emotional subjectivity filtered through the prism of Memory; story-seeds rooted in sensual Nostalgia. In my book, this is what happened has always taken a backseat to this is how it felt.
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Tagged emotion, Feelism, fiction, John Biscello, memory, nostalgia, stories, storytelling, subjectivity, the writing life
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Slant
Emily Dickinson advised that we “tell it slant.” This makes sense. Telling it slant is a natural outgrowth of living it slant. Oblique paths and slanted paths dominate my sense of inner geography. Dylan Thomas wrote: “The memories of childhood … Continue reading →
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Tagged childhood, Dylan Thomas, emily dickinson, fiction, John Biscello, memory, Prose, slant, stories, storytelling, telling it slant
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Fables Reimagined
Posted in Artwork, Books, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
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Tagged animals, Books, children, children's literature, classics, Eclectic Press, fables, John Biscello, publishing, stories
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Review of Charles Bukowski
Review of Charles Bukowski’s Storm for the Living and the Dead, appearing in Riot Material. “Baby . . . I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.” — Bukowski, Factotum As a bottom-feeding, hardscrabble Walt Whitman, Bukowski sang of himself, … Continue reading →
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Tagged charles bukowski, John Biscello, literature, los angeles, Prose, Review, riot material, stories, storm for the living and the dead
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Once Upon a Time
Cover reveal for Once Upon a Time: Classic Fables Reimagined. I had the fun assignment of adapting fifteen classic fables, to be paired with the vintage illustrations of Paul Bransom (which originally appeared in the 1921 book, An Argosy of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aesop, children, children's book, classic fables, Eclectic Press, fables, John Biscello, literature, Once Upon a Time, publishing, stories
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Night Sky
Within the plum-dark consciousness of God’s mysterious mind, Stars tells stories of unsung psalms seeded piercingly bright.
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Tagged consciousness, dark, darkness, God, John Biscello, mind, mystery, night, plum, poem, Poetry, psalms, seeds, sky, stories
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