(2 short novel fragments) Kiyomi was aware the city could read her mind. Late at night, its buzz-buzz glimmer lights flash incessantly while neon advertisements and safety street lamps glow at all hours, melting, melding and blending to create a soft white haze just behind her eyes, and always at the front of her mind. … Continue reading »
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Nahele in Nana’s Garden
A completed short story from the collection “Paradise Moon”. Continue reading »
Inspired by Basia Bulat
One in a series of creative pieces inspired by albums. Published on okiko.org, 2008 Basia Bulat Oh My Darling Feels like . . . Like I’ve been transported back in time to an enchanted hill, overlooking a sinewy river, ripples tell stories of youthful love, a current sometimes willowy slow and sometimes war-march fast. Dancing … Continue reading »
Inspired by Battles
One in a series of creative pieces inspired by albums. Published on okiko.org, 2008 Battles Mirrored Feels like . . . I’m a tweaking chipmunk soldier anticipating forward march, over a cliff, into the great unknown. Immediately enraptured hurling forward at exponential speed – suddenly – soothed by the façade of live instrumentation. And it … Continue reading »
Inspired by Chromeo
One of a series of creative pieces inspired by various albums. Published on okiko.org, 2008 Chromeo Fancy Footwork Feels like . . . I gotsta put on my dancin’ shoes, slide on over to the nearest spot and boogie on down ‘cuz these jams are hot! Chromeo takes me back to elementary school, when all … Continue reading »
Inspired by Glitch Mob
One of a series of creative pieces inspired by various albums. Published on okiko.org, 2008 The Glitch Mob Feels like . . . Post-apocalyptic robots are officially in control. Before the ice caps melted and snow storms hit the east coast, before firey earthquakes dropped LA off the tip of the continent and Japan fell … Continue reading »
Inspired by Neil Landstrumm
One of a series of creative pieces inspired by various albums. Published on okiko.org, 2008 Neil Landstrumm Restaurant of Assassins Feels like . . . I’m neither living nor dead, somewhere between dimensions, traversing a relentlessly expanding and contracting Universe, floating between planets, each one hissing the glitch, bloom, bap forming the soundscape I live … Continue reading »
Inspired by Son Lux
One of a series of creative pieces inspired by various albums. Published on okiko.org, 2008 Son Lux At War with Walls and Mazes Feels like . . . I’m adrift in a sea of undulating beats, waves of electric current floating atop the grand depths of chamber music and symphonic tide. I’ve been waiting a … Continue reading »
Samurai Garden – Fairytale
Samurai Garden A feminist take on the traditional samurai value system as expressed in the traditional German fairy tale style In a medium-sized cottage, surrounded by the most impressive peach garden one could imagine, lived a man and wife by the names of Tadashi and Hiroko Fujimoto. Their daily affairs consisted only of tending to … Continue reading »
