You know the score here at the hotspot. I write anything and everything to get the day faced and conquered. I had a Sprayway T-shirt once with an inspiring quote on the back. It read as follows: Leave Nothing But Footprints, Take Nothing But Memories, Kill Nothing But Time. It’s a decent philosophy. I recall ripping that shirt while performing the Grand National. The Grand National was a game wherein you hopped over everybody’s garden hedges in the street. First one to reach the end was deemed the winner.
You know it’s funny, I sit down here to write sometimes and I haven’t the first clue what to say, yet I feel the thrumming hum of the universe idling like a 4-stroke inside of me, twitching to unfurl like an idle joyful heart, yearning to be released. I wonder if I will ever run out of personal testimony. If the conspiracy theorists are correct, and Infinite Consciousness is ‘a thing’, then I should be able to reconfigure multiple aspects of my mind into countless offshoots of simply amazing print. This means ceaseless blogging. It’s alrite, you can thank me later.
Sutter Kane, the most creative writer in the galaxy, is never short of a drop-dead idea or two. His terminology calls it Limitless Imagination, not Infinite Consciousness. He’s always rewording lingo that doesn’t belong to him. It’s part of being neurodiverse. We are bob on at labelling and categorising. What might baffle a straighthead gets boxed and stickered in seconds by our special breed of rare, atypical, differently wired writing brain.
Not to say that Sutter Kane is mentally ill. He just says he suffers from mental health to break the ice when meeting new people. Like me, telling annoying twits who want to start a conversation about football that I’m psychotic. It helps to keep the hecklers at a distance. Otherwise small people will be there for hours ‘squirting their smallness’ all over you.
There’s no harm in being pathetic and tiny, by the way, just in case you’ve stumbled into the wrong domain here. Just don’t get it in my hair, okay? I’m nice and warm here.
That’s a running gag between me and my big sister. I ask her to get in bed with me and keep me nice and warm. I did it with my younger siblings when I was younger. We’d make a base by assembling upside down furniture on Mother’s bed and hide underneath it all in the dark eating snacks like Blackjack bars and Nerds. Now its all Whoppers and Knoppers and Yonkers and Dunkers. I’d tell my brothers and sisters a spooky ghost story to scare them up. The scariest one was about a technological demon, a burns victim who travelled down pylon lines. That one was really ‘shocking’. This is no bulldust by the way. I knew lots of made-up chillers as a small boy, including one about a sheep-gatherer who starved to death in a bear trap then had his thumbs eaten off by a fox.
There were lots I had no idea of, like The Girl in Black, Jabberwocky, and The Mystery Of The Haunted School. I would learn of these later, and read them aloud under NightSearcher torchlight from the original paperback books.
My mum would tell me off for putting the family on edge. “Where have you heard such drivel?” Then slap me with one of her Japanese Closed-Toe sandals. I enjoyed getting clouted, in a way, it meant I’d achieved something.
I got the paperbacks from car boot stalls, they cost 20 pence each. When I wasn’t running my scams in school, I had a car boot stall myself, selling my own pamphlets which I’d written when detention was over. My brother, who sold multipack bars of chocolate during his dinner hour (strictly not for resale, unless you’re him), inspired the entrepreneurial barterer in me.
I’d make up gambling games based on those in the casino and use them to con willing students out of dosh, huddled together in the middle of the playing fields. The house never lost, if you get my drift.
I also swapped illustrated poems for biscuits. Several older girls bought some and a teacher had one on her wall for ten years, long after I’d stayed on for Sixth Form College and gotten myself institutionalized. Her son told me this once during a happenchance rendezvous in the fish market. I was buying those large ugly grey prawns with the shells still on for supper, fried with basmati rice, jolly Green Giant sweetcorn, red onion, and a mixture of herbs and spices.
I wouldn’t dare get up to any wheeling n dealing down the youth club, or I’d get battered by the townies. They regularly bullied me by reading my pamphlets aloud and taking the Michael, especially the intimate love scenes I described between me and Amanda Kinsellar. The youth club was no place for the softly-spoken. There were fights every night. The townies were a nasty bunch. Many of them are involved in circles of criminality to this day. I won’t drop any names.
Apart from saying that Amanda Kinsellar is now a scabby booty crack pipey dog. All the girls who were stunning turned out to be munters and all the gals who had it up against them have blossomed into bloody painted dolls. Word has it that she got ‘blasted’ by Karks using a Twix finger. White chocolate, incidentally. Salted Caramel. Limited edition.
Bloody disgusting.
Here’s to my latest scam: Getting legacy published, and selling half of a 200 print run!