THE BRASH AND PLUM
a novel by Ashlan Chidester
📖 Synopsis
The Brash and Plum is The poetic collapse of meaning.
RECLUSIVITY_TERMINAL_v2.333
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root@sissy:~$ decrypt -file "The_Brash_and_Plum.db"
Accessing mainframe...
AUTHOR: Ashlan Chidester
GENRE: literary fiction / Poetry
STATUS: destroyed
root@sissy:~$ scan -reclusivity
Scanning for hidden meanings...
Found 42 layers of consciousness
collapse: DETECTED WhaaAA!
root@sissy:~$ analyze -emotional_axe
Emotional damage assessment: [████████████] 100%
Reader impact: DEVASTATING
root@sissy:~$ whoami
USER: catastrphe_Tee_up^
Lock_out@Maximum
root@sissy:~$ █
📰 Reviews
- Vocal.media What Counts as a novel anymore?
- Absolute Write: What the Plum Knew (a poem after reading The Brash and Plum)
- Substack: "Literature of Reclusivity"
- Goodreads: "I've never read anything like it. An emotional axe." Medium The Brash and Plum: Fractal / A Review of Ashlan Chidester's Experimental Anti-Poetry Vocal.media What Counts as a novel anymore?
📝 What the Plum Knew
(a poem after reading The Brash and Plum)
ABSOLUTE_WRITE_TERMINAL.exe
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C:\POETRY> type "what_the_plum_knew.txt"
Out, without a doubt to shout,
snouty and pouty,
a rowdy by sally,
culmin creans in greasy spleens.
C:\shiv> █
💥 DISPLOSIO!
(by ProliferationWeed (How to stay Dead in a Small Town) inspired by The Brash and Plum)
SURREAL_NARRATIVE_PROCESSOR.exe
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C:\TALES> execute "displosio_tale.srl"
larry was a lime, a slimy man in shifty shoes,
lime was also a lucy, she was a tulip tipped in toes,
jerry, mere in dear to the limes,
shot 2 limes but both two times,
the shot went thru the shoe,
and displosio!
C:\SURREAL> █
🎨 Fan Art
Fan contributions of questionable legality and unquestionable passion.
💾 Pictures Collected from Around the Interwebs
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