Richmond Avenue

Richmond Avenue is another Panic story (chronologically, it's the other bookend to Business Travel) and another story published, in July 2006, in (the last issue of) Full Moon Empty Sports Bag. I had intended to revise it (particularly the closing passage) before publishing it on the internet (hence the one-year delay) but decided in the end to let it stand as originally written (out of laziness, not because I think it's perfect after all).

Working Title: Meat

Working Title: Meat was also published in Full Moon Empty Sports Bag, in March 2005. For the reference of future collectors of valuable Indy Datta rarities it's the one with the cover art that Pete Doherty did in his own blood. Rock and roll.

Business Travel

Business Travel was first published in November 2004 in a literary semi-prozine, now defunct as far as I know (although the website is still here), called Full Moon Empty Sports Bag. It's the first installment in what I hope will become an extensive series of stories (and eventually a novel) about a fictional rock group called Panic.

Escape Velocity

Escape Velocity was written as an entry for a competition that was run by Pulp Net, an excellent online literary magazine, in the summer of 2004, and judged by Douglas Coupland. I won! The brevity of the story is, in this instance, down to the rules of the competition: entries had to be exactly 1,000 words.