Author Archives: Oliver Durant

Gratitude

A friend… not the man pictured here:

but a different man different than this one. Possibly a woman, even. Possibly a girl:

This friend who I have not pictured here, thanked me recently in the forward to their book.

I found this touching. It is a grand gesture, after all, acknowledgment.
It is broad and sweeping and indells my [...]

1499 – Best Year Ever

Hayvery Body! It’s Ollie!
I jsut got pub’d over here!
It’s part of the For Every Year Project started by Crispin Best… where writers and poets are composing things in honor of each year from 1400 to the present… we’re just about to hit the 1500 mark… which is pretty big if you ask me…
check it out, [...]

I’m no longer satisfied with the images on my television

Hey, it’s Ollie again.
Last post of my turn, but I’ll be back later…
Here’s something I’ve been futzing around with. No pictures this time, sorry.
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I’m no longer satisfied with the images on my television

I watch the show with the clock. The one that counts the minutes and the seconds until the show will be over.
With each [...]

Pirates, Inquisitions, Plumbers and Zombies

Ollie is hungover today.

These are the questions he is pondering at the moment:
Why did pirates make people walk the plank rather than just throwing them overboard?

It seems that the chances of a zombie apocalypse are far more likely than say, being invaded by Mexico or Canada… shouldn’t our department of defense funding reflect that?

Right now [...]

Hey Every Body.
It’s Ollie. It’s my turn.
The dolls around me have all been accidentally tossed into highly sexual positions.

That coffee cup is heat activated. When I fill it up with coffee from the machine the girl in high heels kneeling on the hardwood floor of the apparently unfurnished high-rise loft becomes naked.
I don’t find this [...]

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