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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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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