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Boneditch by Ian Bird

serial fantasist & novelist @MrCarapace

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"Unlikely things happening to implausible people, usually in the nick of time..." These are the kinds of stories I write and then read out loud here - thanks for listening...
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www.mrcarapace.co.ukbit of a cheat, this one - here's one of the greatest short stories ever written, a gorgeous cameo of sadness and beauty glimpsed and remembered forever as a blessed wound. yes yes yes, i know that blesse means wound in French, that's why I said it, damn it. Anyway, it reminds me of that sense of sadness and gratitude you get wh…
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www.mrcarapace.wordpress.comthis week's diversion is a tete a tete with Crazy Jane, an old folk witch who we can find in a Van Morrison song, a Grant Morrison comic, in poems by W B Yeats and Amiri Baraka, in Nick Cave and Skip James murder ballads and even in modern TV series like the brilliant Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (it's a little more nuanced that …
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www.boneditch.wordpress.comA car crash that creates a saint.An abused child who becomes the quintessence of distrust.A playground that runs the world.The world's largest organism.The secret truth of bone disease.The witch who became a saint.The town where only psychopaths are allowed to buy homes.The literary festival at the end of the world...For …
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music by Ed Smith - https://soundcloud.com/ed-smithwords by Ian Bird - www.mrcarapace.wordpress.com"Look over there, she said to me, passing me my drink, taking my money. I think they’re going to kill each other."I looked where she was pointing, out in the car park, but it was too dark already – I could only see the shapes, likes bones underwater, …
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www.mrcarapace.wordpress.comi should be writing a horror story, but instead here are twenty minutes of words about Grendel, the demon of society's mediocrity, and how he inspires Batman, who needs a great movie right now...www.mrcarapace.wordpress.comAv serial fantasist & novelist @MrCarapace
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www.mrcarapace.wordpress.comThis time I’m sidestepping slightly to talk about two films I really enjoy, which I wrote about some time ago on my other website, www.mrcarapace.wordpress.com, and which I just stumbled over again – Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece with Oliver Reed, The Devils, and Luis Bunuel’s 1967 work of art Belle de Jour, starring Ca…
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