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snowbooks LONDON The Edgier Waters 5 YEars OF 3:aM MaGaZINE Edited by a. stevens snowbooks LONDON Published by Snowbooks 2006 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Introduction © 2006 Michael Bracewell Preface © 2006 A. Stevens For the copyright on individual pieces see pages 353-354 The contributors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of their work. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser Proudly published in Great Britain by Snowbooks Ltd. 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN www.snowbooks.com A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-905-0052-02 ISBN-13 978-1-905-0052-08 “3:AM... for a dip into the edgier waters of literature” The Guardian CONTENTs Foreword ................................... xi MIChAeL BRACeweLL Preface .................................... xix A. STeveNS enough Ribena to Incarnadine the Multitudinous Seas 1 ANDRew GALLIx eros essay .................................. 5 TIM PARkS The New Bohemians ......................... 13 UTAhNA FAITh The Defiant Prose of Stewart home .............. 19 RIChARD MARShALL The Stripper in her Natural habitat .............. 45 JIM RULAND ecosystem Discovered in Saatchi’s Pocket .......... 59 ALISTAIR GeNTRy Maryland .................................. 75 STeve AyLeTT hALLUCINATION = CeLL .................. 89 keNJI SIRATORI Three Poems ................................ 95 BILLy ChILDISh Three Poems ............................... 105 MIke wATT Scene 7 from Sarcoxie & Sealove ................ 113 SANDeR hICkS Five Poems ................................ 125 JAMeS SALLIS The Urge to Destroy ......................... 131 PAUL TICkeLL Motion Thickness ........................... 139 GUILLAUMe DeSTOT Four Poems ............................... 143 TODD COLBy Cured .................................... 151 JIM MARTIN Fetish Alphabet ............................ 157 SUSANNAh BReSLIN I was A Teenaged Go-Go Girl ...... ........... 167 ChARLOTTe COOPeR Afternoon Play ............................. 175 TONy whITe Three Poems ............................... 189 TRAvIS JePPeSeN yeah I Fucked you .......................... 197 JeRI CAIN ROSSI Blackout ...... ............................ 203 TyONDAI BRAxTON, STeFANO GIOvANNINI, ThURSTON MOORe, Lee RANALDO, LeAh SINGeR, MATThew wASCOvICh Jim Giraffe’s Stories ......................... 215 DAReN kING Ghost Town ........ ....................... 221 TONy O’NeILL Danger Stranger ........ .................... 237 RIChARD CABUT The Morrissey exhibition ........... .......... 249 hP TINkeR Three Pub Reviews ................ .......... 259 PAUL eweN Slimy Pope .. .............................. 271 TOM BRADLey Pretty Authors Make Graves .. ................. 277 STeve ALMOND Not Jesus yet .............................. 287 STeveN hALL The Missing kidney ......................... 299 BeN MyeRS when Libido Ran wild ...................... 315 BRUCe BeNDeRSON Backpacker ................................ 325 hILLARy RAPhAeL Metrodaddy v. Ubermummy .................. 335 MARk SIMPSON Stripper excuses ............................ 347 NOAh CICeRO Acknowledgements .......................... 353