Location: Australia
Member Since:
April 05, 2019
Jim Bell
Books
As Free as the Chain Is Long
by Jim Bell
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 44,310.
Language:
English.
Published: August 1, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
The scourge that has just swept the world has given every living soul not just a taste of isolation, but more an imbibed gorging of the inherent mind-fuqery of solitariness that goes along with it. Compiled pre-pandemic, half of the stories run a similar gamut of madness as such, highlighting the personal tolls of alienation and estrangement.
Sardine Can't
by Jim Bell
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 14,480.
Language:
English.
Published: January 29, 2020
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Categories:
Poetry » Australian & Oceanian
Sardine Can't is VOLUME TWO to Sardine Can - the other 60 stories & poems that couldn't be crammed into the original can. There are further crimes of passion here; watershed dreams & wayposts; the fleeting fortuities & exigencies of time; & the piecemeal glories of the misbegotten & the woebegone who are all . . .
The Age of Cladan
by Jim Bell
Price:
$8.00 USD.
Words: 55,980.
Language:
English.
Published: April 9, 2019
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Coming of age
In the middle of the last century an unknown writer emblazoned his credo across Henry Miller's studio wall: at 10 man is an animal; at 20 a lunatic; at 30 a failure; at 40 a fraud; and at 50 a criminal. This is the loosely adopted paradigm that underpins The Age of Cladan: an age-by-page portrait of a misanthrope in Australia.
Sardine Can
by Jim Bell
Price:
$8.00 USD.
Words: 21,040.
Language:
English.
Published: April 8, 2019
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Categories:
Poetry » Australian & Oceanian
Sardine Can is packed with 60 oblique tales and poems of assorted bit players at large; chiefly the mad, the bad, and the brokenhearted. Some traverse seas, wars, the twilight years, and squalor; others, the forlorn ruins of their consciences. There are weddings, funerals, road trips, and obsessions; loners, musos, insomniacs, and lovers. I
Horsy
by Jim Bell
Price:
$8.00 USD.
Words: 26,010.
Language:
English.
Published: April 6, 2019
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Categories:
Screenplays » Drama
And other short screenplays. Horsy (1 hr) is about a petty recidivist on parole who's developed a drug habit and winds up involved in the accidental death of a cohort developing same. With the aid of her former cellmate she tries to dispose of the evidence because of her fear of being returned to prison again.