It’s New Jersey, 1984, and a fat-calved kid wearing dark short pants and a striped propeller cap, is playing in the park. His father, who’s just convinced him that he…

Enter, two naked demons, pointed tails and horns, black fur So you come in and it’s pretty nice, this place, Boris, the one with the wild boar’s head, starts saying…

Knock, knock… Who is it? Smith. Let him in. A lean taut man with dark-blond hair in his early thirties enters. He’s wearing a fedora and a light gray suit.…

The Journal of Manny Face, Installment 5 As seen at Tango Camp in Crimea during the May holidays, 2013 There are moments in Time when Time is suspended. We die…

And so it ends; or begins… “Milongueros” might have been a feature film – and as it opened, panning the dreary dusk hanging over a bleak Buenos Aires waterfront, Manny…

Demons come to kill Welsh Losser contract, learn tango Not an official Journal of Manny Face Installment I was reading the Kyiv Post-It’s fiercely editorially independent, honest, high-quality, objective, thoroughly…

Is there any meaning in Kyiv Unedited? From competent and independent to incompetent and dependent. Evil overpowers free will. Talent replaced by sycophancy. And Jack Step sits here, wondering, who’s…

Please kum in. Haf a seat. How kan I help you? I’ve been having Ferret fantasies. I see. No, you don’t, but listen closely: He’s sitting behind his desk, all…

Or, The Ferret Connection, Part 2 Smith, help me prop him against the wall here, the still well-built older man says, and they lift Jack Step under the arms and…

Or, The Ferret Connection, Part 3, continued… The medical unit had come and gone, taking a half-dead Jack Step with it. The well-built older man says: Check Step’s computer, Smith.…