Promised Land Luncheon
A conversation.
Christie Murphy
Christe Murphy is a British writer.
Write As Many Sonnets As You Can
When the Wind Comes
Peril & Paralysis: Narrative Voice in Lasdun’s Three Evenings
In his short story, Three Evenings, James Lasdun leads readers on a devastating survey of modern intimacy. To convey the perils and alienation in the sphere of modern intimacy, Lasdun brings to life a sophisticated and subtle narrative style. We will examine the nature of, and argue for the pervasive impact of this narrative voice, beginning with an attempt to pin down its form.
Ploughman's Lay
In your sunlight
Stillness,
And your storm...
Days Fly By Like Starlets
What menace moves inside my blood...
Song of Innocence & Experience
There was a moment, long ago
When I knew what it was that I know,
Yet since then, the world behind my eye has tilted -
From a sudden fall
Lest We Forget
Meditation on Richard Mosses's 'Incoming'
Waking (A Poor Man's Sonnet)
Make haste now, sow the soul, prepare the flower...
Meditation on Desire
It is all I ever desire to see. I spend my days roaming to visit these mythical places. Moments of Being. Synesthesia. Smelling the raw cedar sweet of congealed honeycomb. Staring into the eyes of strangers in cities where no one knows my name.
To Tyranny Have We Succumb: A Letter
By such logic, we might have seen followers of the Prophet who live in western countries forced to be screened for explosives when attending school or work. Or white Americans screened for Trump support before being allowed to enter any government building, or people entering gay clubs to be vetted for HIV before being allowed to enter. Is it such a world as this we wish to live?
Meditation On A Sunday
Perhaps this is why we arrive at Chernobyl. A noble working class, and the aristocrats, selfish and repugnant, replaced by bureaucrats, selfish and repugnant. Replacing one lie, the lie for sophists, for the lie of the communists, but it’s the same lie.
Father
So precious and terrible
Like a broken child.
A New Technofascism Now Dominates the United States.
A shot rang out across the world on January 6th, 2021. Ashli Babbit, a veteran with four tours of service was shot at close range by what appeared to be a member of the D.C Capitol Police.
No Country of Mine.
We must begin to peacefully assemble, en masse, wearing masks and observing social distancing to protest this tyrannical use of the Police force and machinery of the Government.
The Coup of January 6th, 2021.
A coup d'état requires several key institutions to be controlled in order to be successful.
Zeitgeist/The Stack (Novel: Working Draft)
When tech mastermind Eli creates a generalised A.I and human symbiot, it seems a utopian society has become possible. But at what cost?
DOTA 2 = DAED GMAE?
Like a stake to the heart of a pulmonary artery, DOTA 2 critics have been pointing to the games failing player numbers as evidence of the games ‘inevitable decline’ in recent years.
Sinister Inquisition or Noble Crusade? Either way - we have a problem.
Recent times have seen an earth-shattering salvo of sexual allegations in our workspaces...
The Ship
Ever the sun beat it’s beams and stained its timber, and colored its mighty aeronauts...
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