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  • Cowboy Ian’s a Major Player

    August 24, 2024

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    Writing

    The ever-delightful multi-hyphenate Ian Cairncross (musician, writer, videographer and podcaster of Cheap Windows/Emo Survivalist/All My Wishes fame) has recorded an excellent reading of my very short story “Cowboy.” Read more

Thought:

“In the distance the street noises died down, mauve shadows stretched out before the peristyles of the temples, and on the other side of the gulf, the base of the mountains, the olive orchards and patches of yellow waste land rippled indefinitely and merged in a bluish haze; there was not a sound to be heard, the air was heavy and unspeakably oppressive.”

Gustave Flaubert | Salammbô