Unfiction Korner

A message from Jawn Steighmeaus:

Howdy friends. I recently returned from a solitary retreat in Desert Shores, CA. The confluence of thick, salty air and eerie, desolate landscape provided the ideal backdrop for revelation and epiphany. And, believe you me, I had plenty of both (65% of the former, 35% of the latter). Perhaps the most notable knowledge that dropped on me came one day during my morning ritual, which involved gazing upon and contemplating the innumerable petrified fish heads strewn along the coarse beach. It struck me like a ton of petrified fish heads that narrative, in any form, serves only as a vehicle for imposing, coercive agendas and narrow, judgmental world views. I suddenly became embroiled in a personal crisis. A contentious donnybrook had erupted in the crowded public square of my soul, as it were. As I drove back to the sun-bleached motel in the rented golf cart, I asked myself, have I been manipulating my readers all these years? Rather than opening their minds to new Kreative horizons, have I been shutting them by insidiously imprinting my own values upon them via the delivery system of my "short fiction?" Obscure as my work may be, it's reckless and injurious nonetheless. Therefore, I've opted to chuck from my practice anything that remotely represents an element of fiction: narrative, characters, plot--hell, even words altogether. It hit me like a thermonuclear weapon in that appropriately apocalyptic moonscape of a valley what the purest, most beneficent form of Kreativity is--something I have dubbed "Colonism" (Doppelpunktismus in Deutsch). It promises to not impose upon, mislead or otherwise harm the reader in any way. The following is the Colonism movement's manifesto:

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