Half an hour later I heard the familiar short toot of Mimo’s horn downstairs. I went to the window and gave him the sign… Narcisa was snoring softly and steadily now. I put the note I’d written on the table by her pack of cigarettes where she’d be sure to see it if she woke […]
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She disappeared again… Now she calls me two days later as if nothing had happened. I went to meet her down by the ocean in Copacabana. She was wearing a plastic strap on clown nose she’d ripped off from one of her squatter friends as he stood in the middle of the street at […]
read moreANOTHER EXCERPT FROM JONATHAN’S UPCOMING NOVEL Narcisa- Our Lady of Ashes TO BE RELEASED BY HEARTWORM PRESS THIS SUMMER. In Tibetan myth and iconography, the Dakini superficially embodies the spirit of female wrath and fury. Her image is depicted as a savage angry she-devil. She dances in a wild frenzy, seemingly bent on destruction, chaos […]
read moreAnother excerpt from Jonathan Shaw’s upcoming novel Narcisa- Our Lady of Ashes NARCISA LIKED: Bad Brazilian TV, Soap Operas and asinine American sitcoms dubbed in Portuguese. She also liked children’s shows, cartoons, pizza, chocolate, Coca Cola with lots of ice cubes. She liked to chew up ice cubes. They say it’s a sign of sexual […]
read moreAnother excerpt from my upcoming novel Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes to be released by Heartworm Press this summer. Journal entry — Love House Hotel. 2:00 am 19 February – Carnival Monday CARNIVAL – The streets were littered with odd clusters of somnambulant jaywalkers tonight. Fucking Zombies. I dunno if they were all drunk or […]
read moreHERE IS THE FIRST INSTALLMENT IN OUR NEW WEEKLY SERIES OF EXCERPTS FROM JONATHAN SHAW’S UPCOMING NOVEL “Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes”– That fateful night I found her after her long disappearance, standing in the rain outside that low-end whorehouse at the rat’s asshole end of Copacabana. At first I thought it odd to even […]
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