Stories tagged film

Celluloid

37853785 views3636 comments2121 favs

Mina stumbled and fell headlong into her apartment, smacking her knees and palms on the hardwood floor.

The Arab Bank

198198 views00 comments11 fav

It had been particularly easy this spring, and it had always been very, very easy.

Just Back from Mexico

1616 views55 comments11 fav

Just back from Mexico where nothing reminded me how sadly I've given up on family and home; and already I've met the wife I've always avoided, and felt the landscape of my childhood drag at me like a sea-anchor.

Sashimi

107107 views77 comments55 favs

Takeo Suzuki was teaching KC, big-time film actor and director, the proper way to slice yellowtail. The chef made four quick cuts. KC mimicked him, but his cuts were barbaric and loud.

Advice to Horror Girl Victims

18041804 views55 comments33 favs

leave a trail of potential weapons dropped from your shaking hands. you must always make it easy for him to follow.

Smoke and Mirrors

10771077 views88 comments22 favs

She liked his company, she was fond of him—the way an old English gentleman might be fond of his terrier—I've very fond of her, you know, he says, rubbing her bristly back.

My Favorite Emotion

4343 views44 comments00 favs

Mom. Dad. I’ll have you know that Jesus, right this second, is in the bathroom, and the bathroom Jesus told me it was okay with him if I pushed Alicia off the roof with a pillow-case parachute.

La Pointe Courte

8484 views2222 comments1010 favs

Hold me, you, because I like it, long-dong silver, slacking slob.

The Thirst

6868 views1010 comments77 favs

In the crowd, someone asking a question about why 16 mm film, and the use of a blue tint effect, when he sees her walk the perimeter of a crowd, red clad figure in long shot.

Raging Life

5050 views55 comments55 favs

When I was imprisoned, I sat in pitch black, stared at the wall, waited for movies that never came.

Negative

2121 views44 comments11 fav

Griffin talked to his actress, said, consider you’re freezing to death, this is the endgame of torrid forbidden love.

Bonne Fire

12331233 views55 comments22 favs

And the voodoo pins pinged as, folding and imploding, she was reduced to a petro-chemical puddle.

Waiting for "Barney" (Mordecai Richler's version)

15491549 views33 comments22 favs

But there’s a special place in my heart for Richler’s tour de force of a novel, his grand finale, Barney’s Version. It has everything — humour, a whiff of mystery, poignancy, a suggested reading list for a literary illiterate like yours truly, the Falstaf

Out of the Valley

5656 views11 comment00 favs

Megan Collier clutched the metal sill of her window, torn between fear and intrigue. Though not her first film expedition, it was her first trip to the African continent. Seasoned and well-paid, this crew had weathered precarious situations before. The dr

Lament of the Horror Movie Marathon

12031203 views44 comments11 fav

I'm in our bed eating yesterday's pizza and chain-watching pirated foreign horror films