the past modernist(s)

A conversation with a loyal fan

Sometimes a fan become more than a fan. Sometimes your lives become deeply, intensely intertwined. And sometimes it’s best to not ask to many questions.

Posted July 3, 2008 by David ben-Avram | Filed Under: Autobiographical, Cultureread on

Mourning for Butterflies (part 2)

Occasionally the phone rang with such force and valor it seemed to quake in the cradle.
It was summer-dusk, a muddled lavender tinged with rose. At nearly nine in the evening he had thrown the windows open wide, inviting it in.
He loved the summer months. For these few months of warm, [...]

Posted June 26, 2008 by Jamie Hall | Filed Under: Uncategorizedread on

the past modernist(s)

Welcome to the past modernist(s), a community of young, adventurous writers who are often self-conscious, mostly over-ambitious, likely self-absorbed and almost always under-motivated. the past modernist(s) is a place to express things one might wish to express if one were uninhibited by bottom lines, government censorship, political correctness, concrete shoes, alien mind probes, preteen peer pressure, mother-in-laws, or the season's fashions. The curious will find more about the past modernist(s) here.