today in Garden Scenery, a story about a man in the subway, going into a tunnel, groping deeper into humid darkness. thank you for your attention to this matter
Dim Red and Sometimes Dim Blue
A story about a man in the subway.
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david c. porter (read NTTN)
@davidcporter.net
the worm does not die; their feet are of clay / writes http://gardenscenery.net / edits @keep-planning.net / buy NTTN: https://www.organ.fail/product/nttn/
new fiction from Avee Chaudhuri in Keep Planning today, a story about friendship, and prison barges, and vintage birthday presents, centering around a man with strangely familiar initials... do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · last wk.#057 – "Problem Women, Problem Men" by Avee Chaudhuri (@indigojackal.bsky.social)
500 million dollars isn't even that much these days. that's enough to buy like half a fighter jet
have a new batch of fragments on writing and related matters (here, “terrorism”, the gallery arts, my relative awkwardness in direct conversation, among other things) in Garden Scenery today. check it out below
Fragments on Writing 4
The fourth batch of these.
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new fiction from Ron Arbuckle in Keep Planning today, about an introverted pastor, and some of the people he knows, and some of the disasters, natural or otherwise, they're bound up with inside his head. do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 3w ago#056 – "MNEMONIC DEVICES FOR REMEMBERING NAMES AT THE LOCAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY PROGRAM" by Ron Arbuckle
today in Garden Scenery, a story about a village on a plain scarred by ravines. it’s called “Ravine Country”. check it out below
Ravine Country
A story about a village on a scarred plain.
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they put me in a tube and told me to become a human being
Film bros freak out when you break into their house and trash the place
Misato tries to sell you a timeshare in Laguna Beach ASMR 4k [30:16]
today in Keep Planning, for the 4th of july, new fiction from Chris Scott, a sharply-drawn little story about a small town mayor dealing with vandalism in a distinctly american way. do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · last mo.#055 – "Electric Cemetery" by Chris Scott (@iamchrisscott.bsky.social)
wrote a story about a dream and some events which followed it. check it out below
Something Restless
A story about a dream and a few days.
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today in Keep Planning, a baroque narrative of gods, bodies, the world dimly sensed through a shattered kaleidoscope from @ergot.bsky.social editor Samuel M. Moss. give it a read below
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · last mo.#054 – "In a God's Hand" by Samuel M. Moss (@perfidiousscript.bsky.social)
it must feel so amazing to be lying out in the middle of a big open field on a bright sunny day when suddenly a huge earthquake starts and the ground splits open beneath you and you fall all the way down into fucking biblically accurate Hell
wrote about one of the more singular works of the post-'68 french cinematic avant-garde, a film where you do nothing but watch the colors change on a pissarro painting for half an hour. i wrote about because i haven't been able to stop thinking about it. check it out below
Intermittence: on Ultrarouge-lnfraviolet (1974)
A case study from the cinema of colors.
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today in Garden Scenery, a poetic sequence organized around the figure of the canine – or, in other words, six dog poems. tap in below ⬇️
dog poems
A sequence.
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it's friday night so i'm listening to ambient noise wall and playing solitaire on my computer
today in Keep Planning, a "Zukofsky-inspired phonetic translation/rewriting" of Mayakovsky by returning contributor Noam Hessler. Noam is, imo, one of the most exciting young poets working right now, and this is a great showcase of their compositional prowess. do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2mo ago#053 – "Crow It All" by Noam Hessler (@poetryaccount.bsky.social)
today in Garden Scenery, three brief fictions concerning, respectively, a tyrant, a drill instructor, and something lying in the bushes. thank you for your attention to this matter
Seventy / Basic / The Dark Conversation
3 fictions.
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today in Keep Planning, some striking, elemental language poetry from Blue Đào Nguyễn. check it out below!
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2mo ago#052 – "god. as a Chameleon (god disguised as an erasure poem of my mother tongue)" by Blue Đào Nguyễn (@bluenguyen.bsky.social)
have some new fiction in ergot. today! a man who was very insistent about buying you a drink now really wants to tell you about his job at a place that isn't a prison. he's sure you're a dog person. you really hope he isn't going anywhere with this...
ergot.@ergot.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Yeah, I work with kids. I love kids. Little angels, I call ‘em..." Today on ergot. 'Man With a Dog Who Barks at Nothing' by David. C. Porter @davidcporter.net www.ergot.press/authors/Davi...
out now in Keep Planning, new fiction from returning contributor Eric Angal, a story about a man going on a date, and a tour de force rendering of obsessive-compulsive consciousness. Eric told me he thought there was "something ugly" about this piece – i agree. do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2mo ago#051 – "The Accident" by Eric Angal (@mrzoris.bsky.social)
today, for the 50th piece on Keep Planning, something different: a selection of philosophical dialogues by the 19th century poet and essayist Giacomo Leopardi, one of the major figures of Italian Romanticism, a strange, sickly man with a great sense of irony. do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2mo ago#050 – "Three Dialogues from the Operette morali" by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Charles Edwardes
new story in Garden Scenery today, about not being able to sleep, and a game played with a knife. do give it a read, i would appreciate it
Warm in Soft Light
A story about a game played with a knife.
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the problem with gaming is that people want to do things rather than just live in the world