Insomnia



From time to time, I battle with the insomnia demon - who makes me feel as if my brain has been pickled--eyes like those red boiled eggs in a jar.

This half-life state is portrait in an experimental fiction I recently wrote, which has been published in elimae this month.

There are so many fantastic authors featured in this zine, I'm honestly shocked to have anything included.

check out: http://elimae.com/2009/04/Pickled.html

J.A.Taylor, Donna Vitucci, Dave Erlewine, Howie Good - the list of top-notch writers featured in elimae is endless.

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