My Pastiche "Buzzard And Sky Reconsidered" in "Lotus Eater" #17

Stoked to have my pastiche/Dada parody "Buzzard and Sky Reconsidered, or the Day of the Last Ominous Omelette" in Issue 17 of the online literary journal “Lotus Eater”.

This is how it begins:

This brief dissertation set out to determine the manifold ways in which a buzzard's glance could be riveted to the welking welkin in the face of increasing levels of hot-air-balloonery but it wound up becoming haruspicy of some sort…ssp

** Read it here (page 18) **

My Parody "Buzzard And Sky Reconsidered" in "A Surrealist Almanac - 2020"

I couldn't be prouder that my parody/pastiche/prophecy 

"Buzzard and Sky Reconsidered, or the Day of the Last Ominous Omelette" 

has been included together with a related illustration by yours truly in 'A Surrealist Almanac - 2020' edited by Tim White. ssp

Here's a brief extract:

[...] One evening, sitting at my table weak and weary, I had the vision of a man with a breaded chicken steak in his hand, riflewise. His failure to agitate the phlegmatic conundrum of my emotional state gradually drove me into a trance-like stateliness. I was forever plummeting towards and never reaching vast pastures of scrambled eggs. The girl next door, evidently with chickenpox, smirkingly struck her favourite pose on the bend of my elbow [...]

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