Starbucks, Marylebone High Street – not a brilliant choice of café but it's busy with working people buying their first coffee of the day and the question that comes to mind concerns constructing a narrative from observed or experienced events. Yesterday another café on the South Bank, waiting for Leah. We had arranged to meet…
Help! It is a fresh idea; one can’t do this alone. Let’s set the scene first; not Montaigne, not Derrida, but some time afterwards. Evening. The two of us were sat in the café Buenos Aires, where passable salt herring and cold beer was still being served, two foreigners somewhat the worse for wear.…
You seem to have found a way to assert a sort of potency without doing any damage; with elegance and an economy of movement and never mentioning fairness or cuts whilst booking your appointment with the nip and tuck man – aging is such a cruelty, darling. Despite the catastrophe of the years there is…
Categories (2024) are:
Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.