Never Mind the Beasts

Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

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Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Marcus Silcock has made his home in such places as Turkey, Poland, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom – experiences that inform his surreal-absurd stories.

Tag: hermit kingdom

  • A MASK OF RUBBER BANDS

    From book of stories in progress. This one is called “A Mask of Rubber Bands.”

  • from “The Lover’s Nest”

    A excerpt from my second novel in progress, Hermit Kingdom. This section is called “The Lover’s Nest.” Polish sailor pubs. Rustic jazz clubs. Vibrating Pineal glands. Self-branding, love and companionship, monsters, MILFS, and satanic energy drinks Nomadic journeys from Katowice to Madrid to North Carolina with beer butt chicken and pimento cheese sandwiches. How to…

  • Jitters

    “A part wants to break away from the other part. The part that wants to break away claims a different culture. How many cultures make the whole. Who are the true people from the part that wants to break away and the true people from the part that believes in the whole.| My flash fiction,…

  • Storm Shoes

    The faces in the holes were egg shaped.

  • Workers of the World

    An excerpt from my novel in progress, Hermit Kingdom, is up today at Queen Mob’s Teahouse. Hermit Kingdom is interconnecting flash fictions, prose poetry, hybrids. International Worker’s Day 2018, Pineapple and Don Whiskers, living in Madrid, walk the walk past Cazorla, with the best tapas, and the friendly waitress, down past the death ring, to…

  • The Hacking Powders

    An excerpt from my novel manuscript, The Autobiography of Don Whiskers, is over at #thesideshow. Partly based on experiences in Katowice, Poland, Cercedilla (Spain), Madrid (Spain), and Palermo (Sicily). It is part of an ongoing trilogy of nomadic surrealist novels. Part autofiction, part magical realism. This excerpt begins in Katowice, at the Zoo, with pagan deities:…

  • Mu (Dream) So (Window) coming soon from Poor Claudia

    delighted . . no more than delighted . . thrilled . ..  . . stoked beyond words . . . to have Mu (dream) So (Window). . . surreal poems written while living in South Korea . . . forthcoming from one of my favourite presses . . . poor claudia

  • from Hermit Kingdom (south korea 2006)

    Still revising The Heyday. Lots of re-seeings, re-readings, re-samplings, mixings and so on. The Heyday (2005-2012) is travel writing. Basho.  Walt Whitman.  Herodotus. 18-19th travel handbooks, Buddhism, ethics and suffering and so on. My experiences in South Korea, Katowice Poland, Elblag Poland, Ankara Turkey, Rome yadda yadda . . . . Sometimes living in extreme…