November 2010 | Inhuman Swill | William Shunn

Inhuman Swill : November 2010

Infidel Dog

This morning, with a high of seventy degrees in the forecast, amazing for a November in Chicago, I drove the dog to Warren Park. That's where we go for a special treat instead of our usual neighborhood walk, because the... read

Smoke

I make it my general practice not to drink and write. At least, I try not to drink when writing fiction, where the prose should be clear and lucid as water, even as it refracts the light. But poetry's a... read

Passing

It's getting harder these days to tell the crazy people from the sane, what with technology the way it is. It used to be that talking to yourself in public was a sure sign of instability, like wearing a sign... read