Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

Letter of the Week

  • Happy to have a new microfiction at Dodo Eraser. It takes place in Trieste, Italy, where I lived many moons ago. Poverty and art and dog walking. The story is called “Higher Callings.” You can read it here

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About Never Mind the Beasts

Silcock’s microfiction and prose poetry often inhabit the uncanny neighborhood of Charles Simic and Russell Edson, yet they are driven by a distinct nomadic spirituality. These are compact, darkly humorous snapshots where the boundaries between the everyday and the metaphysical dissolve.