C S Hughes
Bio
C S Hughes grew up on the edges of sea glass cities and dust red towns. He has been published online and on paper. His work tends to the lurid, and sometimes to the ludicrous, but seeks beauty in all its ecstasy and artifice.
Stories (45)
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Love Is A Dagger
“Love is a fire, and it’s ragin’ out of control” Genya Ravan moans through a scene in the 1979 Walter Hill film, The Warriors, “Love is a fire, and it’s burnin’ up my soul.” While the song plays our group of young bravos, pursued in their journey home through the dangerous night think they have found respite at the invitation of a gang of young women, like Odysseus’s men in sorceress Circe’s halls, they in ego and admiration imagine in parallel a reciprocity, in reciprocity a reward, and surrendering, become sate, unguarded, intoxicated, seduced. In the midst of the ensuing dance, The Lizzies draw knives and turn on the deluded Warriors; in its throes seduction becomes battle, passion, in reversal, another desperate struggle for survival.
By C S Hughes2 years ago in Poets
George Orwell’s Christmas Pudding
When Voltaire made his often-quoted statement that the country of Britain has “a hundred religions and only one sauce”, he was saying something which was untrue and which is equally untrue today, but which might still be echoed in good faith by a foreign visitor who made only a brief stay and drew his impressions from hotels and restaurants.
By C S Hughes4 years ago in Feast
