Never Mind the Beasts

Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

Category: MARCUS SLEASE FICTION

Nomadic surrealist fiction by Marcus Slease.

  • From my novel The Autobiography of Don Whiskers. Finally hope to complete it after seven years by the end of this summer. Maybe. The novel is nomadic life writing plus a kind of surrealism and absurdism. A new kind of travel writing.        

  • https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/saint-tom Setting: A government housing estate called Coffee Hall in Milton Keynes, UK. Characters: David Bowie, Neil Diamond, the Milton Keynes Bowl, hot air balloon, a mars bar,a rocket ship, an American mall, a playground, a 10 year old boy. Plot: a ten year old boy has just found out he is immigrating to the…

  • Have some wee London stories over at Public Pool with audio. “Snug” and “Dinosaurs.” From my novel in progress The Autobiography of Don Whiskers:

  • A short excerpt From my recently finished novel NEVER MIND THE BEASTS. Will be sending it out to publishers/agents soon. Fingers crossed. Never Mind the Beasts is a 1985 coming-of-age story of Henry, a recent immigrant from Portadown, N. Ireland. Told in the style of vignettes, we move inside the mind of Henry as he…

  • TINY CREATURES From a novella in progress called Tiny Creatures. Lots of flash fictions moving into novela. Katowice, Poland 23rd August 2014.

  • FROM MY NOVEL IN PROGRESS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DON WHISKERS. THE COLLEGE DAYS OF SEARCHING FOR MYSTICAL TREASURES . . A RECORDING/READING OVER AT SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/from-never-mind-the-beasts  

  • except from my novella in progress THE NEW VISION. Inspired by William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Eileen Myles, Feminism, psychedelic revolutions, Mormon youth, Utah and much more

  • STARTED A NEW NOVEL OR NOVELLA TODAY. IT’S CALLED THE NEW VISION. UTAH OF THE 90’S. BASED ON A TRUE STORY. HA. AND NOT. FEELIN THE PULL . . OF SOMETHING . . SMALL EXCERPT OF FIRST 20 PAGES HERE: There was no lake below us anymore. It was all dry lakes and bottle rockets…

  • 11th November 2013 NOT JUST ANOTHER SAINT PERFORMANCE NIGHT AT HARDY TREE GALLERY IN LONDON. IT WAS CALLED SAINTS ON FILM I changed into a white robe and Saint Erkembode screened the film he made on my back while I read a collaborative story about traveling through London to find a Doom Drone concert. The…

  • Marcus Slease sits down with Everest Magazine to talk craft, influences, Polish surrealism, Americana and THE HOUSE OF ZABKA, out now from Deathless Press. Just a few basic stats: Born: Portadown, N. Ireland Educated: Weber State Univeristy, Western Washington University, UNC Greensboro Favorite Author/voice: Richard Brautigan, Samuel Beckett Profession: Teacher of English as a foreign language http://everestonline.tumblr.com/post/53433193690/marcus-slease-interview    …

  • Last Christmas in Katowice, Poland I met a girl named Megi Szu and Lola in a Polish pub called Presja. They are Polish but they used English names. Or half English. Szu = shoe Megi = Maggie —————————— maggie shoe Lola = Lola We sat on an old couch with plastic flapping in the wind.…

  •       A very rough draft of some work for my ongoing nomadic travel novel: The Autobiography of Don Whiskers. It will undergo massive collaging and editing later.   MAPS Russians to the right; Indians to the left. I go with the Indians. I follow the sign for Hind Street Community Centre. Outside my…

  • gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous book. Thank you Deathless Press. It’s a postmodern Polish fairy tale. Part one. A nomadic surrealism. A few still for sale here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/130911578/the-house-of-zabka-by-marcus-slease?ref=v1_other_1      

  • my flash fiction up at DOGZPLOT. Great issue. Great illustrations/paintings!!! Thank you Jesse Eagle.  Super happy. MARYNOWANE NIEBO means “pickled heaven” in Polish. Flash fiction takes place in Manhattan estate in Katowice, Poland. Check it out: http://dogzplot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/marynowane-niebo-marcus-slease.html Painting by Lea Barozzi: http://leabarozzi.com/