Damien Walter

Circe’s

First podcast in The Drabblecast #55. Reprinted in Serendipity : Magical Realism. Circe’s by Damien G. Walter Feliks Duda has eight weeks left in country on the morning the letter from the Home Office arrives. He fishes the ugly manila envelope from its hiding place amongst the glossy junk mail. 0% interest loans and 12Continue reading “Circe’s”

Chaser

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 couldContinue reading “Chaser”

Momentum

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 thatContinue reading “Momentum”

Horizon

First published in Murky Depths #6 Horizon by Damien G. Walter I am grown in a birth cell. Embryonic implantation, organ formation, neural development in the nutrient gel of the chamber floor. Only a day and an adult body dries beneath artificial light. They imprint consciousness with a series of complex stimuli. Music playsContinue reading “Horizon”

Recreation

First published in Sci-Fantastic magazine. Recreation by Damien G Walter Every evening Mike would hang the costume up in his wardrobe and every morning he would take it out again and put it on. Every other day he would hose down the insides to wash away his own stale sweat. After two months he stoppedContinue reading “Recreation”

Dust : A Hypertext Narrative

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.

Compartment

First published in Bloom: Young Writers, Route publishing. Reprinted in The Route Compendium. Compartment by Damien Walter I would like to apologise. I would like to apologise to you. I would like to apologise for your lousy day, for the train that was late, the hair that went wrong, for the unwritten essay, the unfinished dream, theContinue reading “Compartment”

Cheer up! The future is Shiny

The future. If our television screens are to be believed, it’s not a place you’d want to go. Dwindling resources will continue to fuel national rivalries, pitching the world into a state of endless war. Our environment will become ever more chaotic and unpredictable. Our economic system will collapse under its own weight, plunging theContinue reading “Cheer up! The future is Shiny”

Where can I get more Chinese spec.fic?

Prompted by the news that leading Chinese authors of science fiction are demanding new leadership for Science Fiction World, the countries biggest publication, I went looking for stories by Chinese SF authors. (Will this rebellion, I wonder, incite similar Coup d’Etat in Western SF publications?) (Unlikely, as Western editors are not government appointed.Imagine if theyContinue reading “Where can I get more Chinese spec.fic?”

This week I have mostly been..

…working on the first draft of a new story now titled ‘To Rule the Sky’. (The title only emerged late last night, towards the end of the draft. I take it as a good sign when the title emerges from the writing.) During the writing I’ve been thinking of it as a literary adventure fantasy.Continue reading “This week I have mostly been..”

The Hate Barrier at the End of the Universe

You can’t be all things to all people. A strength in one area becomes, almost by default, a weakness in another. So it is with stories. The great guru of story, Robert McKee, talks about the story triangle. The relationship between plot, character and idea which means that the more you have of any twoContinue reading “The Hate Barrier at the End of the Universe”

In the Evening

I have been for some time now been collecting translations of the poem ‘Im Abendrot’ by Joseph von Eichendorff. I discovered the poem through the Four Songs of Richard Strauss (of which it is the basis for the last and greatest) and it has been a constant source of inspiration for my growing interest inContinue reading “In the Evening”