Father and offspring | Mai Thảo

Never a person, never, that I have ever seen, such terrifying succinct evidence of destruction, undefined by age and time. More precisely the destruction of life, when life’s nothing but cruel destruction, savagery, destructive power of a poisonous snake constantly striking, at the eyes, nose, searing drops of aqua regia, scotched, forever, never easing at […]

7 beat note. OFFERING | Nguyễn Viện

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn ViệnTranslator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm You won’t fall but on pepples your footing is compromised without me. The days passes by – via the gale by you I’m miscible. The men on the side. Plucking feather from the sky, like rotting fish sunbaking their stomach in a net. As […]

home to the fall | Đinh Trường Chinh

In Vietnamese by Đinh Trường ChinhTranslator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm home to the fallhome to the fogto a room cast in darknessdiscern the stirring of the dying light home to. home yes.to half a glass of your poisonblow away the dust and cobweb of timein the night wash away the stains of old & stale […]

B-MOVIE HOST ASHLEY GHASTLY (1977/8-1982)

… ASHLEY GHASTLY – Cyrus Newitt played the phantom Ashley Ghastly, host of the Bad Movie Show Scream Theatre from 1977 or 1978 to 1982. The program aired on Saturday nights/ Sunday mornings at 12:30am on WCSC in Charleston, SC. Ashley’s name came from West Ashley, the area of Charleston where the WCSC studios were. […]