Here’s my newly updated list for a “Best of William Meikle” anthology if any publisher ever wanted to produce one
I get asked quite a lot about what my personal favorites are of the shorter work I’ve written so here’s my newly updated list for a “Best of William Meikle” anthology if any publisher ever wanted to produce one 🙂
BROKEN SIGIL (novella, DarkFuse)THE LADY OF THE MINCH (Peel Back the Skin, Gray Matter Press)BEDLAM IN YELLOW (The Court of the Yellow King / Caelano Press)BE QUIET AT THE BACK (After…
My 2018 Kindle collection, Sweet Chuckling Morbidity (which includes my Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Vol. 4 story, “Bloodletting and Intrigue on All Hallows’ Eve”), is free for five days, starting today. Get your copy at:
Contains:
myNdwOrm (from Journal of Experimental Fiction Volume 73: Offbeat/Quirky)
Dollimination (from DarkFuse Magazine)
In Case You Were Wondering (from DarkFuse Magazine)
Carlianne
Entropy in Blue (from Under the Bed Vol. 3 No. 9)
Stash Reunion
Smells Like Scissors
Percytion
When…
Lionel’s Fanged Chimera
Burst Contact
An Opening (from Shopping List 3)
Our Forecast Reads Stygian (from The New Accelerator)
A civil servant who monitors sex offenders is losing his mind. He's suspended for actions he doesn't remember, prone to fits of anger, has horrifying hallucinations, and is visited by a stranger in his backyard warning him to not use the phone.
Is it a government conspiracy? Demon possession? Time travel and alternate universes? Is it all a dream? Is he dead and being tormented in the afterlife?
Good prose, but the story reaches a level early on and doesn't move from there, aside from a quick scene of violence that felt out of place. Without things ramping up I was just left to guess what the resolution would be. I didn't guess completely right, but given that the story felt four parts Jacob's Ladder and one part Angel Heart, it wasn't a surprise either.
Some loose threads are wrapped up at the end, but like Jacob's Ladder a lot is dropped. The audiobook's narration was a good artistic choice, whispery and lethargic, but didn't help with the pacing.
REMEMBER Recuerdo que esta foto no me acababa de gustar porque no me gustaba como salía. Me veía como hinchada, con papada, porque mi forma es así, si me descuido me pillan en fotos que parece que tengo papada. Como si eso fuera algo malo. Y es que así somos, que nos metemos una caña brutal. Siempre nos vemos fallos que no son fallos, cuando en otras personas no nos lo parecen, pero en una misma sí. Siempre hay algo que no nos gusta, no nos convence, o lo queremos de otra forma. Entonces me desdoblo y me veo desde fuera, y me digo lo bonita que soy, y abrazo mucho a mi yo pasada como la de esta foto, y le digo cariñosamente lo boba que es a veces. #deliriumfusion #tribalbellydance #tribalfusion #darkandurbanfusion #darkfusion #bellydancersoninstagram #39300 #torrelaveganizate #torrelavegamiciudad👌🔥 #cantabria #danzacantabria https://www.instagram.com/p/CXeMTAIMjWl/?utm_medium=tumblr
This is always one of my favorite customers to share. She's so talented! One of these days I'll get @epickiwii up to Vermont to dance. For now, here she is in her customized ogham side slit skirt I recently made for her. Song - I want my tears back by @nightwishband #nightwish #metal #metalhead #metaldance #metalbellydance #sworddance #swordbellydance #sword #goth #darkfashion #darkfusion #flowarts #wingsofsin #ogham https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4EmrLHJeD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a1mkhazcbf36
Gothla France 2022 The first pictures and emotions about @GOTHLAFRANCE 🖤 I am so happy was there as invited teacher. I am so proud of this. I want to say thank you, @taylamara9 and @mellbounce for having me. I am so thankful for your kindness and care of me and my family. It means a lot to me ❤️ And of course this is a honour for me to perform on one stage with such amazing dancers I was so enjoyed to meet in person @morgana_tattoohada and @cleliadanse. Thanks for our casual conversation in dressing room. I like this time🖤 #EthelAnima #Etheldancer #Etheltribal #tribaldancer #gothlafrance2022 #gothlafrance #darktribal #darkfusion #tribalfestival (at Aix-en-Provence, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CddFpirsaAi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
My collection A Carcass of Genre is now available as an audiobook, narrated by Sean Walpole. Give it a listen, if you wish.
Description:
No narrative ever ends; each crawls inside its listeners to decay eternally. Those listeners become authors to write themselves out of existence, working themselves into our unspooling.
Presenting A Carcass of Genre, a twenty-stop tour of Jeremy Thompson's imagination, featuring all-new pieces and previously-released nightmares from publications such as Walk Hand In Hand Into Extinction, Into the Darkness, DarkFuse Magazine, Brewtality, and Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 2. Will you be the same after you listen to it? Will you be, at all?
Throwback #Butoh Picture by @dmanab Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. #butoh #dance #butohdance #danza #danzabutoh #performance #art #scissors #theatre #contemporarydance #darkfusion #fusiondance #tribalgoth #fusionbellydance #gothicbellydancer #gothicbellydance #danzafusion #darktribal #gothbellydance #darkbellydance #darkfusionbellydance #tribalgothic #darkfusiondancer #darktribalfusion #darkcabaret #darkart #tribaldance #klbutohfest #butohdancer (at India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRDKdPolOku/?utm_medium=tumblr
My student troupe KILLED it last night! I’m so proud of all the hard work they put in, helping each other out! You all rock! We did a dark fusion number to Curse of Byron by The Devil and the Universe and it was awesome! . . #bellydance #bellydancer #tribalfusion #tribalfusionbellydance #maledancer #malebellydancer #dark #darkfusion #gothicbellydance #goth #gothgoth (at Arabesque Dance Studios - Award-Winning Belly Dance!)
🌟RENACIENDO🌟 Debe ser la LUNA LLENA 🌝 que coincide con varios acontecimientos, y después de sangrar en LUNA NUEVA 🌚, que parece que resurge en mi la renovación. Se me activa de nuevo la energía, la creatividad, la ilusión, las ganas de entrenar, aprender, y retarme constantemente. 🔥 ¿Sabéis ya que hay MATERIAL NUEVO en PATREON (clases online with me)? Un total de 120 vídeos, por ahora... 60 de int/avanzado, 40 de iniciación, 25 de warm up, cooldown, y especiales... ¿Quieres aprender conmigo? ¡Infórmate a través del link de mi bio! 📷 Foto de @roberto_anguita 🐍 Vestuario @_melicdeserp_ #tribalfusion #instadaily #instadance #dancer #darkfusion #fyp #foryoupage #bellydance #dancersoninstagram #cantabria #danzadelvientrecantabria #danzaorientalcantabria #orientaldance https://www.instagram.com/deliriumfusion/p/CYuzDt4oRdz/?utm_medium=tumblr