Yearly Archives: 2011

The Hacker Store

Customer: I was wanting to take up a new hobby, and I hear you can help. Shopman: Oh yeah? Well, maybe I...

Re: Move (Reprieve)

If ever you find yourself selected for a Doha Film Institute program, you may want to celebrate by sitting down and writing a dozen...

Talks with a Stork

Karen, stuck at Lundern Central, and frustrated by the unhelpfulness of the Ticket Inspector, is muddled and befuddled about what next to do... Karen could...

Eight Into None

The killing happened on Monday. The grief poured out on Tuesday. The rage built on Wednesday. The tension rose on Thursday. The rain poured down on Friday. The mob...

Asking Questions of Pilger’s Research

The beginning is a good place to start a story. The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally...

Apart; Meant

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmoc4a There are fewer words, but more lights, camera, action with this post. Use the player to watch a short movie of sounds and still...

The Ticket Inspector

After disembarking at Lundern Central, Karen discovered the next tube from Westminster would be along not in a minute, or an hour, or even...

Parallel Return of the Jedi: Interruptions

At a studio, nearly thirty years ago, somewhere rather near Borehamwood, they knocked up some plywood sets and pretended they were spaceships. The...

Remove

If you have read First Person Singular and Mohammed and Hanka, then you know that I am working on screenplays for a short movie....

Questions at Lundern Central

After being separated from her father and brother, and being tossed head over heel during a topsy-turvy tube journey, Karen Zipslicer arrives at Lundern...

UK Cut Loose

I used to be a leftie. The past tense is important; it does not denote a change to my values or beliefs, but...

The River

"And again, because they saw that all this world of nature is in movement and that about that which changes no true statement can...

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This website showcases content created by Eric Priezkalns, who also uses the pen name Ray Blank when writing science fiction. It includes stories, essays, poems, short films and audio recordings.