A preview of AS A MACHINE AND PARTS at Lobster Cult

A couple fellow Cutlies (www.chuckpalahniuk.net members are called Culties, the site is called The Cult; I’m not at risk of drinking tainted Kool-Aid, I promise) very recently started a new online lit mag site called Lobster Cult. It’s too early to tell what sort of material will become their foundation, but if my personal knowledge of these guys, Phil Jourdan and Jack Joslin, is an indicator, stories will be transgressive, brutal, dark, with bits of humor tossed in.

The “bits of humor” part is where I come in, I think (I hope). Lobster Cult is kind enough to host the first two chapters from my as-yet-unpublished novella AS A MACHINE AND PARTS. This novella marks the deepest I’ve stepped into the illustrative metafiction world, in which I use the physical structure of the text as a way to tell the story. Take a peek at the first two chapters for a taste (the layout gets even crazier as the story progresses).