The Arnolfini Wedding by Jan Van Eyck, with Jacob gatecrashing
See you on Saturday, 4pm at Tin-Aw Art Gallery for our Bibliophibians Reading Group discussion of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman.
If you enjoyed Convenience Store Woman, here’s another piece by Ms Murata: the deadpan, bizarre (to us, anyway) A Clean Marriage.
Job’s Evil Dreams by William Blake. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
The Defenestrations
Chapter 3BB
by Angus Miranda
Part 1
“Mom, hurry!”
Teepee fumbled through her Evelyne bag excavating phone, house keys, an assortment of coins, a shriveled stick of chewing gum, a hair comb with missing teeth, bottled water caps, and ketchup packets. She dug through with a ferocious archeological concentration that prevented her from noticing the security guard approaching her.
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Frame from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
The Defenestrations
Chapter 3BA
by Deo Giga
Part 1
Teepee’s phone rang. She ignored it. Feeling too restive to take a call now, she was spinning about and looking for the source of the voice. Her son’s voice.
“Tell me you heard that,” she glared at the security guard.
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Trickie Lopa and Lisa Periquet of Art Fair Philippines
Illustration from East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Kay Nielsen. Image from The Public Domain Review.
The Defenestrations
Chapter 3AB
by Patrick Limcaco
Part 1
When he opened his eyes he actually knew where he was (Convent Road, Silom, Bangkok), and if he were more self-aware he would be amazed that he knew.
He had Instagram-storied this place before because he thought it was “sick” and “cool as fuck” that people — a mix of locals, expats, and Chinese tourists — were eating by the side of the road, beside huge piles of garbage.
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