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Notify me of new posts via email. My side was a mess of rearranged gears and blue coolant wept from a broad gash. There was another smear of coolant on my chest, in the shape of the letter M, right over my heart. Johnson created the gorgeously minimalist cover. You can pick up Weird Noir in print form or in a digital format at Amazon. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here There is a diverse range of writing styles yet all somehow capture the essence that makes each tale "noir-like" and there is definitely an element of strangeness or in some cases the supernatural which make this title something a bit different.
I was already a fan of some of the authors that feature in this book and since reading it I will certainly be paying more attention to several of the other writers that I have not come across before. I have given this 5 stars for several reasons, firstly is that it was such a good read obviously but also for the reasons that it has introduced me to new authors and that the editor has done a fantastic job of getting stories that are intriguing and interesting, at least I found them so.
This set makes for a glorious masterclass in less-than-glorious filmmaking.
I would highly recommend this title to anyone who likes a bit of intelligent quirkiness, a bit of mystery and a bit of the unknown. Dec 12, Bracken rated it really liked it. Irvin's "Charred Kraken with Plum Butter" alone. This is great stuff if you like it dark and weird and who doesn't? Nov 13, Laurie rated it it was amazing.
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Chris Irvin is a great up and coming writer! I am secretly hoping for future stories from Irvin that feature the harsh Underbelly lit by moon slugs and fake stars. I also really enjoyed W. Jun 01, Caroline rated it really liked it Shelves: I really enjoyed these tales of vampires, werewolves and other strange creatures. Some were spine-tingling, others humorous. The great thing about short-story collections is that you dip into them at any time and read them in any order you choose. Jan 01, Jenmartinauthor rated it it was amazing. Awesome collection of short stories.
Great read for any occasion, and best of all-I'm an author in it! Proud to list this book as one I contributed to! Feb 01, Stephen Dorneman rated it liked it.
An uneven collection, but hard-boiled weirdness abounds. You may have to wade through a silly Godzilla-as-detective story to get to, say, the Wonder Woman and Dracula in a bar story that you do like, but if you persist, the Good Stories, like the Truth, are Out There. Recommended for the idea more than the execution. Aug 14, Linda Robinson rated it it was amazing. Bought this book because it's hard to find, and I'm glad it's mine, and wish it was more readily available. Laity pulled the collection together and I'd love to read the Call for Entries.
I have favorites which I'm not going to list here, because you'll want to find your own. Quirky, funny, dark, highly entertaining. Dec 24, Carol Irvin rated it it was amazing. Love the stories especially the one by Christopher Irvin! Mar 22, Antoinette Averlais rated it it was amazing Shelves: Nina Phunsta rated it it was amazing Nov 02, JoHnny Haddo rated it it was amazing Jul 21, Red Herring rated it really liked it Mar 08, Paul Brazill rated it it was amazing Nov 13, Kempe rated it it was amazing Jul 01, Belynda rated it it was amazing Dec 05, Taylor rated it it was ok Oct 31, Mike rated it it was amazing Jun 01, Peter Shortland rated it really liked it Mar 11, It is, rather, a medium for liberation.
An excuse to be fearlessly bold, a ticket to kick the world in the tits while sticking your tongue out and wiggling your glitter-encrusted arse at it. Needless to say, I really wanted to write a story for Drag Noir but, after whacking my brain into inanimate object after inanimate object, I was stumped. It did the job though, one of those mental switch thingummies. I listened to that fucking song about eight million times while sitting in front of my screen and not once did my fingers stop typing.
First came the image of the faded drag queen, a shadow of her former self that long ago night at the Axolotl, sitting in a parking lot on one of those awful white plastic chairs, inches long ash clinging to a still blazing cigarette, lipstick smudged, wig askew. And I wondered what she was waiting for, because she was definitely waiting for something. Brazill It goes like this: Then a gypsy cab driven by an Islamic fundamentalist over to the East End and a dodgy pub near a meat market.
Go for a slash on in an alleyway near Crucifix Lane and get lost just off Druid Street. A tall Polish woman with a turban gives me a message from beyond.
Disability as Drag Redfern Jon Barrett. Regardless of the social progress made in recent years, our world is still not yet kind to the subversive: Public acceptance may be on the increase, but as every queer person and drag queen knows, we have a long way to go. Meanwhile, a different yet parallel rights movement is fighting for its own social and legal equality: Progress has been made, but as every blind or autistic person knows, we have a long way to go.
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Of course there are more similarities between disability and gender nonconformity than my structuring two similar paragraphs on each. Firstly, each has the ability to make the public uncomfortable, as each causes us to question our own identities: The second similarity is that both gender nonconformity and disability have been heavily medicalised by both public discourse and institutions. Are deaf people merely a medical condition, or a culture with its own language and social groupings?
The nonconformists share a history of dehumanising medical discourse. Both groupings have been the target of eugenics programs.
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It is this shared discourse lies at the heart of the story. In a world in which parents have or believe they have genetically engineered every aspect of their children, the disabled and the queer face the same threat of marginalisation and persecution. This shared struggle is embodied in Thomas, a disabled homosexual who faces intense persecution because of the random chaotic chance of his birth — a deviance which can never be truly eradicated, regardless of technological advancement.
Yet the story also examines the interplay between his identities as a gay, disabled man. In this future, as in our own time, the disabled are frequently viewed as asexual. He manages his position in society via an internal drag, mentally conceiving of himself as a female femme-fatale — a perspective which allows him to navigate his affairs with married men. He is a threat masquerading as harmless. At its root, the story is based in the fact that every struggle is a shared struggle. Gay men and wheelchair users, lesbians and the blind, drag queens and the autistic have all been marginalised by social and medical discourse.
Without solidarity and recognition of our shared fight, we risk a future in which society once again uses technology in an attempt to eradicate the nonconformists — a future in which no drag can save us. A port stop during a cruise disembarked us in Mexico, facing a row of tour vans and buses. Most of these were staffed by sign-wielding native folks with weary, worldly-wise faces; obviously they did this job for the living it provided and not because they found it fun.
She looked and clearly felt, however, more akin to her brown-skinned career associates than to the flocks of North American tourists who surrounded her. We wondered what, or who, had led her to this path. And of course, romantics that we are, we wondered whom she went home to when her day of tourist-wrangling was over. Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets — faboo artist S.