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The Cotard Delusion

Sumit Dam — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:01:23 +0000

Yeah. It’s been a while. A few months ago I heard that the Grant Museum – the tiny, deeply fabulous zoological wunderkammer embedded deep in the throbbing heart of UCL’s Bloomsbury campus – was running a short story competition. The Grant is a delightful place, packed – and I do mean packed – with its [...]

Memories of Hope

Sumit Dam — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Pandora unboxed Hope is making a memory box. It is hard work, now that she is dead. She died in the sixth month of the sixth year of their marriage. She died in childbirth. The child, too, died in childbirth. In a more literal sense. Hope puts the photograph at the bottom of the box. [...]

tory robots and tubular smut

Sumit Dam — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:31:55 +0000

So the reading of i/o Error at last week's Liars' League went well: or to put it more precisely: the audience mostly laughed at the right bits; I had a whale of a time and there was even a bit of the promised love in the air, albeit that it faded faster than a rose from a Leicester Square flower-seller. Full write-up after the cut.

i/o Error live

Sumit Dam — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:17:26 +0000

i/o error is going to be read at the next meeting of the Liars' League, which has a Love & Marriage theme. (You might recall that The Man With The Musical Penis was read by Martin Lamb at the corresponding event last year, to great effect - that's why I submitted again this year.) Details after the jump.

The Tree

Sumit Dam — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:22 +0000

A Freudian nightmare.

i/o Error

Sumit Dam — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:14:46 +0000

Insert Tab A in Slot B

Cave Canem

Sumit Dam — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:15:16 +0000

Biting the hand that feeds.

Grey Is The Colour

Sumit Dam — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:16:21 +0000

You're not singing any more.

Why Don’t You Just

Sumit Dam — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:13:11 +0000

A leap of faith.

Welcome To Tower Hamlets!

Sumit Dam — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:16:32 +0000

A guide to one of London's least-known but most curious boroughs.