Journalist, science writer, storyteller
I wrote this on my phone on February 26th, tucked into an armchair in the lee of the stairwell at BAC, just before seeing Rove. It was a totally ordinary night (aside from the fact that I was actually early enough to sit and write something), and I had no particular reason to be pondering … Continue reading Home is where…
Originally written for Exeunt Memory is unreliable. I don’t know what shoes I wore to Fiction, but I remember the dress – eggshell blue with ruffled tucks that tugged at my knees as I crossed and uncrossed them in the dark. The first few times I went to BAC, several years ago now, I could never … Continue reading Fiction
Originally written for Exeunt In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with us and the Word was us. And the Word was stories, and stories have endured. It’s a drizzly Saturday afternoon and I’ve stopped dead in the middle of the Tesco over the hill from my house, clutching a carton of … Continue reading Rove
I’ve tried writing words about Songs of Lear, and it’s completely pointless. I just can’t. So I’m going to write around it as best I can and that gaping maw in the middle, that unnamable, missing, essential thing; that’s what it feels like to watch it. A few weeks ago, we recorded some original music … Continue reading Songs of Lear
Originally written for Exeunt It’s Halloween and I have a perky pseudo humorous intro to this all planned out when I sit down in a room possessed of a remarkably oversized bed (I am disappointing and sit on the available chairs) to speak to Chris Brett Bailey. Because being pithy is easy and lazy and … Continue reading This Is How We Die
Originally written for The Public Reviews Pecos Bill was raised by coyotes. He rides a horse called Widow-maker and is in love with a girl who rides on the back of a giant catfish. He once lassoed a tornado. He is one of the lesser known larger-than-life characters to have roamed the folklore of the … Continue reading The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill – BAC Cook Up
Mary Halton 