Author Archives: Rejected Short Stories

Athene’s room was small and well insulated, giving their voices a flat, serious quality, like a Bakelite radio broadcast. The air inside it was sweetly resinous. He was working hard to remember all these details, even while they talked. They were 15 minutes into the session and he was acutely aware of time leaking away.“IContinue reading “Athene’s Room”

Ha ha, yes, I guess you could say it’s like Jurassic Park, only for our intelligences to grasp human culture. We call this area the colonial Mise-en-scène, for acceleration purposes we’ve done a fair bit of onto-cultural splicing, here Celine, Kerouac and Pound, the Shits as we call them. Hozomeen, Hozomeen, most beautiful mountain IContinue reading “Onto-cultural splicing”

From Things seen on Street View (2009) The word simulacrum infers that one of these two identical objects is inferior to the other, but which of these images is the shadow version? The second image is less blurred while the first appears to be racing over Blackfriars Bridge towards its more sharply focused doppelganger. PlatoContinue reading “Simulacrum or Double, Street View, Blackfriars Bridge (2009)”

1941 The Ocean Spray Hotel, ‘American Style Bar’ Saltdean East Sussex. The hotel, like the men inside it, is a wrecked shell of its former self; the 426 bedrooms (which once boasted opulent Art Deco features) are now home to 300 veterans, exhibiting varying degrees of war trauma. Ivan Dâr has been living in theContinue reading “The Ocean Spray Hotel”

Dare half of the Phi Books, a collaboration with Alexandra Antonopoulou 1. Party Walls[1] The Wrong Intercom  Although I know little about her it would be accurate to say that Elizabeth Cho is the closest person to me in the world. If, for some reason, we pressed ourselves flat like geckos against the party wallContinue reading “Party Walls”

+Exhibitions & Conferences, doctoral supervision, funding Publications (book chapters & academic papers) Dare, Eleanor, Papadaki, Elena (2025- 2026) co edited ‘Arts Journal’ special edition: Arts From Craft to Code and Back Again: Rethinking Art, Materiality and Exhibition Practices in the 21st Century. Due 2026 :https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/RX5X85G706 Yamada-Rice, D. & Dare, E. (2026 forthcoming book) X||dinary MethodologiesContinue reading “Academic Publications”

An excerpt from ‘Road’ Skin Vision John Lent could see his reflection in five CCTV screens. The large mole between his eyebrows stared out like a desiccated third eye. Lent had once been told that such a mole was a sure sign of a deep yet excitable thinker who needs to keep their ego inContinue reading “Skin Vision”

If you look at the code below you’ll see that my state is activated and defined by a number of factors, including the psychometric evaluation of readers, CCTV images of the South Bank area, financial and weather information and the height of the Thames at London Bridge. This may paint a rather confusing picture andContinue reading “The Boolean Logic of the Thames”

I am writing this with a pencil that is gradually wearing out. I can’t tell you how many of them I’ve got through to-date, hundreds, thousands maybe? I favour the egg yellow hexagonal ones with lamp black stripes along each edge. They hold so nicely in the hand. They feel so real and present. IContinue reading “Life Row”

“I’m going to have a crap and a cigarette, when I get back I want you to start telling me the truth” “Why am I being detained here?’ I’d been in the room for over three hours and it was at this point I caught myself falling into what certain healthcare professionals have identified asContinue reading “I’m going to have a crap and a cigarette, when I get back I want you to start telling me the truth”