An American Saga Set in Kyiv
Night has fallen again, or maybe the daybreak had been just an illusion, some optical trick shimmering outside the window on the horizon that was merely darkness reentering itself as…
“There’s murder afoot, death at hand and evil looking on from nearby.” The Guinea lowers his smooth salacious chin toward the cold summer soup and scoops up a full spoon…
Starring Jack Nicholson Know what I mean? “In a Lonely Place”, “Scarlet Street”, “Sunset Boulevard”, “Out of the Past”… are we purged, or does the corruption of the human soul…
Again, I make no journal entry – I don’t know why, nor what I’m looking for – M.F. “Gold Diggers of 1933” is billed as a musical, with song and…
Smith regales Cornish with book-burning fable I was in this three-story cafeteria Smith invited me to at the end of Sahaydachnoho and Kontraktova Ploshcha in the Podil district of Kyiv,…
Pull quote: in re Manny Face: “Whatever that green-tinted elf-eared B-actor greaseball is doing, Smith, I don’t like it” “Say, Smith, I’ve got a pre-generate for you.” “Go ahead, shoot.”…
Third person, free indirect speech, omniscient narrator, by unknown The figure looks like Manny Face, but we can’t be sure, since we see him from the back with only an…
Served up: a shocking baked surprise “Well, Welsh, I saw that latest YouTube video of yours. Some iced tea? Lemonade, perhaps?” This is Josh Davies, hosting a mid-afternoon luncheon for…
Young agent steps in for break; talks to me regarding evil incarnate He’s talking to me. A young agent; didn’t give his name. Or maybe he did, but I didn’t…