With Zippy Zamazda on the stand, Part 2 DRAMATIS PERSONAE GRATAE: Same as in Part 1 Plus: Sergeant-at-Arms (who presumably should’ve been in the first part) A hapless woman (who…

Making his coffee bitter cup to swallow, early one morning at this particular Coffee House on Podil DRAMATIS PERSONAE: The Hunched Cornish (HC) HC: You goddamn stinking lowlife Guinea. I…

The evening is dark, the sky is bright, look at the writers who’ve come out tonight They’re gathering in the Kyiv Writers’ Club Hall of Literature, each in possession of…

It’s the day before production night in the Kyiv Poster newsroom, so Brent Boner figures he can take it easy… … and there he is, behind his desk, masturbating to…

A cautionary tale The sun beams wide-eyed and warm upon the dark-tilled pastures of Diaspora Ukraine. But the pale blue field of heaven’s dome is empty of promise. No fluffy…

A touching moment with intimations of desire It’s a chilly early spring morning and the sun is just rubbing its eyes open over the horizon. Just broken out of their…

Producer: (from off set) Five, four, three, two, one… You’re on, Kate! Kate Mustard: Good evening, everyone, this is Kate Mustard with another edition of “Meet the Bitch,” Kyiv’s first…

Part 2 The Ferret and Welsh Losser are locked in intimate embrace behind a wild garbage-glutted copse on Trukhaniv Island as their big fish fries blithely on The Ferret’s secret…

At the same McDonald’s on the outskirts of Kyiv – near that very same waste bin from where the cheese-smeared wax paper that once covered a hamburger, which has been…

A briefing, with The Dancing Girl in tow, in lieu of a job not done by T.H. Cornish I had the tickets for me and The Dancing Girl for the…