Hellmark Press

Look upon Despair, ye ignoble, and Work!

20031114

candy lily from July
being there: 100

[Fore] the alarm screams into my harried dreams, creeping into the scenes at the seams like light splashing around the brilliant lining of a...
circumeloquacious triangulation

they thought he talked funny because he always tried to communicate exactly what he meant
The Loose Screw

nce there was a Screw. It didn't know that it was a Screw or that it was Once. Yet. First, when the Machine ran, all the part...
three more voicemail haiku, for male voice

o! magic 8 ball, connect me to deadpan gulch 5502 this connection is cloudy, indistinct; you should call again later . . . all signs point t...
the tree

Dear Reader, you may have noted my previous allusion to a magnificent tree. Two visitors with arboreal and horticultural authority gre...
A Spy on the Street Where You Live, pt. 2

And there’s Lerner and Lowe’s Fair Lady, herself also a figment from Ovid as Pygmalion’s Galatea, but, back then, she didn’t have a street, ...
release the drones

Dear Norm, I hope this note finds you well. I know it's been a long time, but the outrages continue, Norm, and I just couldn'...