Secret Wheel (14)

Secret Wheel (14)

  http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/contents_for_the_hawler_klaxon_city.htm - The Tenacity of Feathers (two novels)

 

http://www.weirdmonger.esmartmusic.com/ - Weirdtongue (novella)

 

http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/yesterfang_part_one.htm - Yesterfang (novella)

 

http://weirdmonger.mindsay.com/?entry=345316 - The Apocryfan (novella)

 

http://elizabethbowen.fortunecity.com/blog/entry14.html - Ladies (novella)

 

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http://store.yahoo.com/shocklines/kandkibydfle.html -Kites And Kisses (Peeping Tom 1997)

 

http://www.clarkesworldbooks.com/weirdmongerwheel.html - In The Vein Of The Father (Heliocentric Net 1994)

 

http://www.midnightstreet.co.uk/weirdmonger.html - The Thing In The Bed (Black Tears 1995); Miscegenation Of The Quirk (Auslander 1995)

 

http://www.pendragonpress.co.uk/wwheel/hildred.htm - Hildred's Tale (Night Terrors 1996)

 

http://www.pendragonpress.co.uk/wwheel/monarch.htm - Monarchs and Man (Red Eft 1994)

 

http://www.shadow-writer.co.uk/between.htm - Between The Floors (Scaremongers - Tanjen 1997); Between White Lines (Dementia 13 1992)

 

http://members.fortunecity.com/tonymileman/weirdmonger.htm - The Weird Monger's Circus (The Standing Stone 1991)

 

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/three/page12.html  - Lowered Lashes (Vinyl Elephant 1994)

 

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/05/abrecocks-zawns_23.html  - Abrecocks & Zawns (Vollmond 1989)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/05/awakening-of-samuel-rigger.html - The Awakening of Samuel Rigger (Nightfall 1991)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/06/front-room.html - The Front Room (The Ultimate Zombie 1993)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/06/shaped-like-snake.html - Shaped Like A Snake (Ghosts & Scholars 1994)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/07/knee-jerks-for-nancy.html - Knee-Jerks For Nancy (Palace Corbie 1993)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/07/dorothy-alone.html - Dorothy Alone (Waste 1998)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/07/claudette.html - Claudette (The Banshee 1992)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/07/wasted-meals.html - Wasted Meals (Nox 1993)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/08/ice-monster.html - The Ice Monster (Night Dreams 1996)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/08/island.html - The Island (Night Dreams 1995)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/08/revenants-and-provenants.html - Revenants and Provenants (Gypsy Blood Review 1993)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/08/smidgeon-too-short.html - A Smidgeon Too Short (Oasis 1994)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2005/01/dark-serendipity.html - Dark Serendipity (The Zone 1995)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2005/01/map-of-memories.html - A Map Of Memories (Palace Corbie 1999)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2005/02/three-stories-darned-merely-by-thread.html - Three Stories Darned Merely By A Thread (Strix 1998)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2005/12/drawstring.html - The Drawstring (Darkness Rising 2002)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2006/02/aphids.html - Aphids (Strangewood Tales 2002)

 

http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2009/07/ertz.html - ERTZ (Violent Spectres 1995)

 

http://horrorreview.esmartdesign.com/diptych.htm - Diptych (Black Tears 1995)

 

http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/dfltong.html - (QRD 1996)

 

http://www.kamikazee.freeserve.co.uk/rawbrain.htm - (Arrows of Desire 1994)

 

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/4464/bd.huggermugger.html - Hugger Mugger (Psychopoetica 1996)

 

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=145421249&blogID=446247678&Mytoken=FCC3A465-F292-4C02-B72302D6B27733006202945 - Processors (Vandeloecht's Fiction Magazine 1993)

 

http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/zz/z08.htm - Spanning The River

 

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/horn.htm - The Horn of Europe (Silver Web 1993)

 

http://noxnight.com/archives/seasick.html - Sea-Sickness

 

http://weirdmonger.mindsay.com/the_smell_of_the_past.mws - Smell Of The Past

 

http://www.dowse.com/storyville-anth/stories/storydfl.html - A Private Person Travels The World Home (Strix 1997)

 

http://elizabethbowen.fortunecity.com/blog/entry7.html - Why Behind the Fence?

 

http://augusthog.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=1586289 - Laughter In The Distance

 

http://wordonymous.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=1586286 - Beyond Ulthar

 

http://weirdtongue.tripod.com/weirdtongue/index.blog/1774550/old-haunts/: Old Haunts

 

 

 

To read 'A Pocket Sea': a story collaboration by several writers on one of Jeff VanderMeer's message boards, please click

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/discus/messages/15/303.html?1076686442

 

CABINETS project on Jeff VanderMeer's message boards:

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/discus/messages/15/425.html

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/discus/messages/15/1267.html

 

Hello Des (first thread in 2003 on Night Shade Books Forum):

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/discus/messages/8/31.html?1155369609

 

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PENGUINS AT MIDNIGHT

 

When he talked to himself, he very rarely listened.  Being lonely made him feel rather good, inasmuch as silence and lack of company insulated him within a cocoon of self – and the world’s pain couldn’t cross that silence, collecting outside the silence looking in, powerless to touch him through the silence.

 

Amid the silence, he had his own peculiar and irritating habits but he still watched himself in the corner of the room dressing up as all sorts of creatures.  He knew he was immune even from his own behaviour, being so utterly lonely – loneliness being the strongest anaesthetic.  He watched himself as creatures from the zoo, many animals or reptiles or birds, often all at the same time.  Loneliness was a multiplying force as well as a numbing one.  There he was in the kitchen dressed in his lion suit and now he watched himself coming down the stairs wagging a trunk from side to side and simultaneously he heard loud noises from the toilet as a swamp creature conducted its ablutions – and as the evening wore on into night, he saw the two thousand wings of a thousand birds – and upon the stroke of midnight waddling penguin suits crossing the moonlit lawn outside the window.

 

He was immune.  Against the disease of mind or body. Perfectly insulated. By the security of silence. By loneliness.  By the loneliness of madness screening out the same madness.  But one day – following the march of several versions of himself as various wading birds – he suddenly felt decidedly iffy.  He tried to warn himself to get a doctor quick but, as ever he wasn’t listening. Or couldn’t listen because of the silence. And so he never knew he was a dicky duck with flu and no quack.

 

 

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The following stories can now only be found by seeking even secreter wheels than this one:

 

Dark Oasis (Literatia Macabre 1996)

Tugging The Heartstrings (Thingamajig 1997)

Skin Deep (Atsatrohn 1993)

Beyond The Park (Dreams & Visions 1991)

The Demon Faltering (Lost 1991)

Disquiet (Dreams & Nightmares 1994)

Spooking Out (The Fractal 1994)

CÆSURA (Oasis 1999)

At The Moosey Mud-Flat (Euronymous 1994)

Trial and Terror (The Black Lily 1996)

The War Wake (Cthulhu Cultus 1997)

Belated Moments (the kore 1994)

Description Of A Kitchen Event (The Bibliofantastic 1999)

The Ulterior's Motive (Beyond The Moon 1994)

The Tsarina's Wintercoat (Nightfall 1990)

A Disowned Spontaneity (Voyage 1998)

Painting With Water (Noir Stories 1993)

Daughters (Dagon DFL Special 1989)

Green Twist (Shorts From Surrey 1993)

Lexophony

Ashley Lime (Odyssey 1993)

There's More To Bellini Than Norma (Zine Zone 1998)

Visages of Jade (Dreams & Nightmares 1991)

The Picnic Party

Avant Garde (Samsara 1995)

4' 33" (Nemon ymous 2002)

Half A Sixpence (Crypt of Cthulhu 1993)

Blubby (Red Eft 1997)

The Parachutist (Night Owl Network 1993)

Nomicos Inge (The Sterling Web 1991)

Penguins At Midnight - new story 2006