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Jack Swift :: Enter Jo-Ab

The green bus pulled around the corner, squealing on its wheels like a Formula One courgette on steroids. To the attentive eye, it was visibly pulsating with the effort of holding its psychedelic cargo from bursting out onto the street, threatening to detonate like a fractal explosion in a spiral warehouse and cover the city in squirming astral day-glow debris. It spluttered to a stop outside a shoe shop and…

Beltane

HIS LUNGS ARE BURNING. He feels as if he is carrying two fiery wounds on his chest. Pain is marching through Digger’s body as he leans, hands on his knees, and wonders how, or even if, he will manage the next stage of the run. The chill wind cools the sweat quickly on his skin; he can tell that it stinks of the bodily residue of wine and cigarettes and…

The Big Red Door

This is just a reminder to all of you in and around Edinburgh that the Big Red Door (on Lady Lawson Street, near the Grassmarket) is open, is amazing, is full to bursting with goodness, talent and magic… and needs your support, right NOW. For details of everything that’s going on, check out their website:

http://bigreddoor.wordpress.com/

Saturday’s Secret Cabaret is a particular favourite (and I’m often storytelling…

Jack Swift – Kin, 10th June 2009

I have surfed the stars and ridden the wind. I have walked between the worlds, been eaten by a bear and swallowed by the turquoise wolf that steps between the molecules of the sky. I have died and been born a thousand times and I know the secret name of the sycamore, the oak and the elderberry. Mine is the hunger of the sacred hermits and the dance of the