First published in Universe #1 Star by Damien Walter Heinrich always volunteers for class activities. The last two study periods of Friday afternoon are put aside for a visit from a policeman. The students ask him why he does not wear a uniform. His answer makes everyone laugh. Criminals, he says, do not wear uniforms. [...]
GROWL for SF Fandom I. I saw the best minds of my genre destroyed by sanity, well fed, rotund, naked. dragging themselves through the convention centre at lunch time looking for affordable beverages longhaired hippies hunting for the dusty hardback collectible anthology of Hugo winners in the dealers room at night, who poor and t-shirted [...]
First published in Electric Velocipede #21/22. Podcast in Dark Fiction magazine. My Lovesick Zombie Boy Band by Damien G. Walter I am excavating an eight pointed star onto the pages of my text book when I catch the boy looking at me. I keep the pen moving, the shiny blue ink bubbling and frothing, soaking [...]
First published in Pulp.net. Reprinted in Transmission #9. Chaser by Damien G Walter For four years I didn’t eat. Not like you eat when you really want feeding anyway. I nibbled at things. I took crumbs left on plates. I surreptitiously sipped from other men’s cups. Then when I was thin enough that I could [...]
First published in Electric Velocipede #13 . Reprinted in Serendipity : Magical Realism and Arts & Things. Podcast in StarShipSofa #173. Momentum by Damien G. Walter When great uncle Peter came to live with our family in the house by the sea I asked my mother why it was he never spoke. My mother explained [...]
Dust : A Hypertext Narrative was written in completion of my BA Performance & Media at De Montfort University. It is an experimental piece, but contains some intensely personal writing. Read Dust : A Hypertext Narrative online.
