On attempting to quit people and stay home.
Why go out? Because if what we want more than anything is to attain self-confidence, health, energy, and peace of mind, we should stay in. We could be like little Buddhas, meditating and masturbating and watching TV. And we could imagine ourselves to be brilliant, and kind, and good lecturers, and good listeners, and utterly loving – and there’d be no way to prove it otherwise.
Sheila Heti Brick Magazine Jul 2007 10min Permalink
A pair of shipwrecked seamen are put to work producing effigies.
"My effigy took eleven days to complete and I was genuinely proud of it when I had finished. It was just the same size as me to the quarter-inch, and the face, drawn over sun-bleached cloth in charcoal, was quite like my own despite my having no mirror to work with and having had no previous artistic training of any kind. The Chieftan congratulated me heartily, and after hefting the effigy onto my back, he allowed me to leave the working area for the first instance since I had begun the undertaking."
Patrick deWitt Brick Magazine Jan 2012 20min Permalink
The story of the most secret underground society in Paris.
Sean Michaels Brick Magazine Jul 2010 Permalink
