Comment spam as ART
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The following came as a spam comment for the previous post. It didn’t take long to get spammed but I really liked this one. Quite a nice little story. I may have to use it one day as a theatre piece.
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The first time it happened, Adam was in the office gym. It was not his regular gym, but a small one high up on the silent upper floors. As he walks out, a piece of jagged metal in his hand grazes the arm of one of the corporate sentries, one of the unsmiling men who moves in the strange silent world of the upper floors. A deep gash in the skin that reveals, not blood and flesh, but a gleaming silver fluid, endlessly swirling, like molten metal. Adam is terrified. Then something hits him, and he rememberes nothing more until he comes around in a strange corridor with wide bell-shaped vases standing against the walls. He returns to work, and in the coming days convinces himself it was all a dream. But he still has that piece of jagged metal he picked up. And he remembers, weeks later, when a man is found dead in the strange corridor with wide vases against the wall, his body covered in welts the shape of long, curved eyes.
lysieri wrote:
Don’t bother … I’ll finish the script someday and you can read the whole thing.
Posted 23 Mar 2009 at 10:50 pm ¶
lysieri wrote:
Glad you liked it. But it is not spam, nor is it the full story. Maybe I’ll send another when I write more, if it gets past the overzealous filters.
Posted 24 Mar 2009 at 8:42 pm ¶
chris wrote:
hey…. sorry about the filter but it was me!!! Damn… I thought the spam bots were getting all creative… ohh well… I’ll have to wait for that one…
Sure thing! let me know how the story pans out and maybe we can work on it together… whoever you are, sorry again but I don’t recognise the email address and hardly anyone I know actually reads this blog!
Posted 25 Mar 2009 at 12:39 pm ¶
lysieri wrote:
… One of the best things about cyberspace is the capacity for random inspiration. When it’s very late and very dark you can type in three or four of your favourite words and find yourself in the middle of a stranger’s world. Have you ever tried it?
That’s how I found your site.
The worst thing about the internet is that once your ideas are out there, they become everyone’s ideas. That doesn’t always help if you’re a writer. You want to commune with the sea of random darkness but retain your own pinpoint of light. So I dip my foot into the sea, but I want my ideas to sail under my name, not someone elses.
Dipping my foot in the water has made me renew my efforts at describing Adam’s adventures. I think it needs to be a film or at the very least a graphic novel.
But if you work in the theater … there is something I’m working on for the stage called “the desert”. It seems to resonate with some things you are experiencing.
Posted 03 Apr 2009 at 8:53 pm ¶