A Song Of Ice and Fire Movie!

My all time favorite fantasywriter (George R. R. Martin) is gonna be a HBO series! Maybe. Supposedly March is the month HBO big whigs are going to make their decision to greenlight (or not) the series. Think of it, kiddies! ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ in an HBO miniseries model, partially underwritten by the [...]

THE FLUORINE GUN

THE FLUORINE GUN By Gregory Purvis © 2009 Part of WAVEFORMS ON THE ELECTRIC OCEAN                  The drugs didn’t take, so I shot him with the fluorine gun…       Fluorine rings are toxic to smart machines. Specifically, to third and fourth-generation Assemblers. You put one or two rings around their vents and its lights out. [...]

Flu+Nyquil=Weird Dreams

“Maps of Fallen Skies” was written after a strange fever-dream. When I woke up, drenched in sweat with a Nyquil hangover, I had this weird feeling that my “real life” was on “pause” somewhere, just waiting for me to get back to it. I grabbed a notebook and wrote this down in five minutes without [...]

Poetry from Stripmine

NOTE: This is a poem from Stripmine, a book of poetry and essays I’m publishing online and in print. I’m doing some limited-edition books–each one is one-of-a-kind, unique, hand-lettered titles, heavy paper, textured inserts, signed and numbered, etc. They are available for $50. Email gregorypurvis@live.com for details. “Blur” is written “in character” and relates a [...]

Murder: It’s American!

GENTLEMEN! YOU CAN’T FIGHT IN HERE! THIS IS THE WAR ROOM!   “Dr. Strangelove” After a two week hiatus (okay, “more or less”), I’m patrolling the television airwaves last night, looking for blog fodder. I’m basically thinking about breaking new ground with raw, undiluted honesty. Meaning, I’ve been toying with the idea of blogging about some of the [...]

MOSQUITOLAND

Here are a few pieces from STRIPMINE…this is a collection of short essays and poetry written from about 1987 to 2005. The first printing was in 1994, with another limited run in 1999. I’ve edited the whole collection three times, with the most recent major edit in 2005. The following selections are mostly pieces I wrote [...]

TRACE EVIDENCE

Trace Evidence By Gregory Purvis © 2008   The first week of May and it still feels like winter. Ganza shook his head irritably, wincing at the stiffness in his neck. The house—a crime scene, now that Forensics was officially sucking-up all the overtime hours—was bathing in long shadows, with sunrise still two hours shy [...]