I tag-lined this blog (for twelve months, at least) with the claim that my ever-growing blog, this what you are reading now, bradgarten is “where 2008 is the year of the short story.” And while many of you have been keenly keeping up with the more non-fiction content posted, I’m never certain whether anyone is [...]
Don’t worry if you still don’t understand completely, just yet. It remains deliberately confusing and vague. I try to pull the bits into a swirling whole and see how the pieces land before I move onwards. There are scattered bits of plot and idea, meandering fragments of character and concept, and traces of threaded notions [...]
I can imagine that there is a pulse in this place, somewhere, deep down that I can’t quite feel yet. I can imagine that there is a vein of enduring rationality, lingering logic, draining and coursing through the ether-works of the hidden layers of the city. It is fantastic and mildly amusing, but [...]
