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Troutdale Kingdom – 8 (Serialized Novel in Progress)
Revolution. Reformation. Massive perspectival overhaul. They cause is more desperate on an empty stomach. Straw-sucking from a _____ beneath the eyes of the usual Tapatio woman. She leans over the counter looking judgmental about the cloud cover in the floor-to-ceiling windows. There is a sarcastic little sneer built into the corners of her mouth that [...]
Troutdale Kingdom 7 – Novel in Progress
Monday he wakes to the usual megaphone alarum of thought prospectors and student radicals trawling the blocks below for converts. There is no wet, rough tongue on his cheek, no kibble-asking eyes, only the brief thought flashes: bomb, Dove Lewis, Troutdale. “Aw Christ.” And so his morning and life are reintroduced for him. In twenty [...]
Troutdale Kingdom – 6 – Serialized Novel in Progress
When Rawlings wakes he does not know what day it is. Bleary-eyed and cold from the window draft he stands to look outside. Rain slants, gust lateral. But for the red beacons ruby-crowning the towers of The Portland State Octaquad and a few oddfellow curtain glows in the higher floors of the adjacent Deborah Kafoury [...]
Troutdale Kingdom – 5 – Serialized Novel in Progress
Rawlings came to with a plainclothesman holding him down by the shoulders. The side of his head felt cold and wet. Nearby someone was moaning. Siren call grew louder. He tried to make out the plainclothesman nametag so he could order him to let go. The face was familiar. He’d seen it dozens of times, [...]
Troutdale Kingdom – 4
Leave D-town and Close-In be run by the commuter knights of the civil service and their brother and sisters of the service industry various. Incentivize them up the wazoo. (L.D.M. Roy: We’re going to ‘Feed the Beast’ with our new “Points in the Paint Plan.” Establish low-post position by clicking on the ‘Feed Me’ link [...]
Troutdale Kingdom – 2
“So we need you to find out what’s what out there, Rawls.” Swafford lifted his sweatsome rump from the damp-ringed desk corner. “Fuel stipend sheets are in your box. I worked out too much this morning to bring them over with me.” He stage-wiped his brow and plieed from his Rawlings cube exeunt. But not [...]
Troutdale Kingdom 1 – A Serialized Novel in Progress
Rawlings was shouting and no one cared. Jumping up and down in the truck bed. Gesticulating and frothing. Another election year nut. Shoppers clutched their bags and-or children and hurried on. Rawlings snapped. Another tipless break was almost over.“You’re the Versailles of parking lots, Troutdale! Baroque robots in thrall to secret societies! Any one [...]
Scott Tienken’s Mass Transportation Now Available!
Mass Transportation is the second novel by Scott Tienken. The buildings are literally running amok and a public bus is a harrowed citizenry’s only refuge in Scott Tienken’s futurist-jigsaw-gothic Mass Transportation. Join the citizens of Broken City as they flee from ambulatory buildings, urban ghosts, and each other; all too distracted to realize their only [...]
Pacific Crest Trail – 1,000 Mysterious Doors
Trailhead sign-board for the Pacific Crest Trail just north of Stevenson, Washington. The staples are dropped anchors; all the possible warnings/maps/informoids posted back through the decades summon the legs who’ve walked the trail or walked the environs when there was no trail; all portions; clear down the west coast. Public-spirited hieroglyph. Better it is blank [...]
Port of Albina – Attendance – 1,000 Mysterious Doors
You knock on doors even when you think you know the answer. Or perhaps you don’t hear the answer. Then you imagine the possible answers if there were was someone to open the door. This mod little booth is one stone throw northwest of the Rose Garden, sentry to a jack-grassed, forgotten lot that is [...]