Narcotics of Narcissism
Don’t stare at your reflection
too long, Tim;
you may turn into a knife for yourself.
Author: The Collidescope
The Collidescope was founded by George Salis: He is the author of the novel Sea Above, Sun Below, which was praised by Alexander Theroux and Rikki Ducornet. He’s also the editor of The Collidescope, an online publication that celebrates innovative and neglected literature. His fiction is featured in The Dark, Black Dandy, Sci Phi Journal, Three Crows Magazine, and elsewhere. His criticism has appeared in Isacoustic, Atticus Review, and The Tishman Review, and his science article on the mechanics of natural evil was featured in Skeptic. For almost a decade, he has been working on a maximalist novel titled Morphological Echoes. He has taught in Bulgaria, China, and Poland. He's the winner of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing.
The Sea-Rabbit by Wendy Walker
Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil
You were a failed experiment
on my living room carpet
two nights after the earthquake.
Thrill of the Hunt: An Interview with the Founder of Tough Poets Press
George Salis: I consider you something of a superhero, championing the underdogs of literature who have been wrongly neglected. And so, what is the superhero origin story of Tough Poets Press, does it involve radioactive spiders, gamma rays, mutant genes?
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Towers of Babel: An Interview with the Founder of The Untranslated
And You See the Mountains, Imagine Them Fixed
Translations are a puzzle. Say you’re reading Talal Itani’s translation of the Qu’ran (because you realized you haven’t read the central text of the world’s 2nd largest and fastest-growing religion) and come across Surah 24:43:
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Of Godhead and Gravestones
Of Godhead and Gravestones
Rip the words from my tongue
before they find form
Literary Afterlife: An Interview with 5th Wall Press
Imagine a fictional world in which all your beloved (or despised) dead writers get one last swan song from beyond the grave. Do they find themselves in “heaven,” “hell,” or something far stranger? And will they ever get around to answering some of literature’s greatest mysteries for us, such as:
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four figures in the desert, by a rock, or a stone
four figures in the desert, by a rock, or a stone
the language
that they speak
only makes
sense
under the
water.
To Name the Unnameable: The Satanic Verses
“Have ye thought upon Al-Lat and Al-‘Uzzá
and Manāt, the third, the other?
These are the exalted gharāniq [cranes], whose intercession is hoped for.”
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