Secret Angel Process James D. McCallister As the magnetic poles wander Onto the sand beyond the sun This uninhabited soul Lying in secret indifference Witnesses a birth taking place within her innermost being| James D. McCallister
A new year, a new poem. Enjoy. Grandiose Mendacity (Ode to the Demiurge) James D. McCallister In a perfect fury of arrogant accumulated dishonesty a nonmaterial patterning factor affecting matter exists Forever in Saturn’s far-famed shadow This superintelligent hyperobject craves submission from a future which controls the past Examine this inanimate spectator| James D. McCallister
That’s right—it’s an honest-to-jiminy book launch for a Mind Harvest Press title by James D. McCallister! It’s been a year since our poetry release, and six years since we held a party for one of our own books (and books there have been in those years). Now that we have an appropriate venue in the| James D. McCallister
Our culture is dead, and like all zombies it cannibalises its own past forms, in our case the cultural world of the 1980s which our civilisation replays, in increasingly degraded forms, over and over again, creating a nightmarish pastiche of the world we departed four decades ago. From the pop music of The Weeknd and Taylor Swift, to The| James D. McCallister
Author Thrilled to Present Long-Gestating Story Collection Much more to say on these stories later, but for now, here’s the cover (and here, posts from the past regarding this material. These characters and situations are “near and dear” to the heart around the bustling world HQ of venerable Mind Harvest Press, so knowing the work| James D. McCallister
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they* don’t have to worry about the answers.” —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow *THEY = The Hierarchy Enslaving You| James D. McCallister
Another Lament for a Lost Loved One Those of you who have frequented this blog long enough to have read this harrowing post, or my novel Mansion of High Ghosts, may recall of the terrible tragedy which befell the occupants of my automobile way back in 1987. This remains the singular life-changing event of my| James D. McCallister
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, The post Quote of the Day appeared first on James D. McCallister.| James D. McCallister
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