Jonnie Walker
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The Warbler
It was getting late, and under the trim of dusk a smoky gloom had shuffled down the maddening hillside. I kept writing; time went on; the pen in my hand; dear, scrambling footprints, wary, daunted by absurd space; in the midst of absent thought, lilac veins smothered by cloud, cloud smothered by the lengthening dark.
By Jonnie Walker3 years ago in Fiction
The Grave Candle
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. I saw it that first night, only from the corner of my weary eye. I was perched at the bureau in my study, reviewing a set of missives received the same afternoon. I remember it well: the light came to me like a faded star of ochre, whispered across the lake from the shallow promontory on which the cabin stands. A sensation like cold metal clasped the nape of my neck, and as a child, I watched it dance with the blue mist above the water; I watched in bewilderment, nay, allurement, aggravated by some feeling I can neither describe nor forget.
By Jonnie Walker4 years ago in Fiction
A Party
Sometimes you go to a party and you don’t know what the fuck to do with yourself. Hell, sometimes you’re on the way to a party and you don’t know what the fuck to do with yourself. There was me, in the middle of winter, haunting the booze aisle of a Tesco Metro like a spectre, not knowing what the fuck to do with myself.
By Jonnie Walker4 years ago in Fiction
The Joyce Affairs
There were two peculiarities about the affairs carried on by Miss Eleanor Stephens in the scalding New York summer of 1953. The first was that each of the two gentlemen involved were very much aware of the other’s existence, and had been from the very beginning. They had no knowledge, however, of the second peculiarity – for which the term perhaps does no justice – which was this: each man had been christened Henry by his loving mother, and both mothers, as it happens, receive mail addressed to Mrs Joyce.
By Jonnie Walker4 years ago in Fiction
