Selected Short Stories From The Southsea Sibilance Society - Writers Forum

European_Son · 02-04-2005, 07:58 AM

The Selected Short Stories Of The Southsea Sibilance Society

"Did you hear that?"

The slaughterous screams of the serpents echoed and reverberated around the streets of the desolate city, shattering the previous silence. Sliding headlong, they cut a siege and surged for several slave humans, who ran in our direction, shouting pleas and promises. Somehow they knew the location and entrances to our secret hideouts and from afar they signalled and motioned for us to let them inside, into safety, secluded and silent, and out of the sight of the gregarious reptile swarms.

YOU ARE INVITED

"Instead of simply sauntering spuriously through life! put a spring in your step! and sprint into the loving arms! of THE seductive subterranean super cult of the twenty-second century! led by the visionary son! of a subatomic strange quark! Sidious Santa Strangelove!"

WE LIVE SW OF SARATOVSKAYA

"SUBMIT to the death of your salesman, servant of the serpent, repent! SUBMISSION is required, or in slanderous scandal may you drown!"
Expressive subtlety suffers as you drown your subconcious in soiled substance, and its never been the same since I melted once. The suggestion box says "shape up", so take note, it's time to slay the habitual strangulation of the imagination that manifests itself as living in a state of smoke.

mammamaia · 02-04-2005, 09:55 AM

huh???

is this meant to be poetry?... or an exercise in pronunciation for the speech-challenged?

i'm flummoxed... enlighten me, please?!...

hugs, maia

ps: a siege can't be 'cut'... did you really mean 'siege'?

European_Son · 02-04-2005, 01:45 PM

I'm not sure if it's strictly poetry, but I couldn't classify it (in terms of locating the correct place to post it) any better, so poetry it could be...

As for cut a siege, I'm not sure if that works, but I'd had that particular combination of words in mind for years, and this seemed a good time to let them spill out.

Thank you for the commenting maia

zaoshang · 02-04-2005, 02:03 PM

They are prose-poems. This genre is less known, yet well established in the literary world.

I really like them. I find your style very original.

European_Son · 02-06-2005, 08:11 AM

Thank you Zaoshang. There will (three?) more Selected Short Stories From The Southsea Sibilance Society to follow in due course! 'Sounds!' 'Sex!' And 'Suffering!' but not at the same time. Soon!

zaoshang · 02-07-2005, 08:37 PM

looking forward to reading them! you know! those exclamation signs! in you are invited have a really weird effect! on the reader! like when someone is talking to you in a calm voice! and from time to time they clap their hands once! right before your nose! then just go one with their talk! like nothing happened! that's weird and funny!