RICHARD CHIEM

She still looks very straight ahead at no one in particular.

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Pets with Insomnia by Richard Chiem in My Name Is Mud

What a great line, too? The “very” seems like a mistake, but then as you read on, you realize how right it is. How elegantly it suggests how deliberate the character is being.

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popserial: Featuring: Tao Lin, Luna Miguel, Ben Brooks, Sam Pink, Steve Roggenbuck, Blaise Larmee, Frank Hinton, Timothy Willis Sanders, Richard Chiem, Ana Carrete, Crispin Best, Poncho Peligroso, Andrew James Weatherhead, Cameron Pierce, Shaun Gannon, Michael Inscoe, Cassandra Troyan, DJ Berndt, Madison Langston, Zachary Whalen, Liam Bjartrun Adams, Spencer Madsen, Elaine Sun, Jackson Nieuwland, Omar De Col, Stacey Teague, Meggie Green, James Duncan, Cassandra Nguyen, Marshall Mallicoat.

popserial:

Featuring: Tao Lin, Luna Miguel, Ben Brooks, Sam Pink, Steve Roggenbuck, Blaise Larmee, Frank Hinton, Timothy Willis Sanders, Richard Chiem, Ana Carrete, Crispin Best, Poncho Peligroso, Andrew James Weatherhead, Cameron Pierce, Shaun Gannon, Michael Inscoe, Cassandra Troyan, DJ Berndt, Madison Langston, Zachary Whalen, Liam Bjartrun Adams, Spencer Madsen, Elaine Sun, Jackson Nieuwland, Omar De Col, Stacey Teague, Meggie Green, James Duncan, Cassandra Nguyen, Marshall Mallicoat.

(Source: muumuuhouse)

beachsloth: Richard Chiem is amazing. He’s getting older, wiser, and better. I read him on a fairly regular basis as he has a good output of work. This is a strange piece. I like Chloe. I wish I didn’t already know a Chloe and have a history with a person named Chloe. That made the piece a little more difficult to read. Glad Richard focuses on a party. Parties can be such weirdly isolating experiences sometimes. Like, if you’re not a beautiful, attractive person, they can be downright scary. And in Richard party everyone is beautiful. I hope one day I am beautiful on the outside. Not sure when that day will come. Guess I’ll have to settle with that shitty ‘I’m beautiful on the inside’ malarkey. 

beachsloth:

Richard Chiem is amazing. He’s getting older, wiser, and better. I read him on a fairly regular basis as he has a good output of work. This is a strange piece. I like Chloe. I wish I didn’t already know a Chloe and have a history with a person named Chloe. That made the piece a little more difficult to read. Glad Richard focuses on a party. Parties can be such weirdly isolating experiences sometimes. Like, if you’re not a beautiful, attractive person, they can be downright scary. And in Richard party everyone is beautiful. I hope one day I am beautiful on the outside. Not sure when that day will come. Guess I’ll have to settle with that shitty ‘I’m beautiful on the inside’ malarkey. 

beachsloth:                 Richard Chiem writes plenty of short stories. This one re-visits Chloe, the unfortunate subject of his ‘Pop Serial’ piece. Poor pets with bloodlust and insomnia, this is why I don’t have pets. Here I think is where the party has ended. Now everyone’s simply hanging out in one of those low-intensity hang-outs, like when the party music has ended and everybody’s chilling to Godspeed You! Black Emperor. 

beachsloth:

                Richard Chiem writes plenty of short stories. This one re-visits Chloe, the unfortunate subject of his ‘Pop Serial’ piece. Poor pets with bloodlust and insomnia, this is why I don’t have pets. Here I think is where the party has ended. Now everyone’s simply hanging out in one of those low-intensity hang-outs, like when the party music has ended and everybody’s chilling to Godspeed You! Black Emperor. 

(via altlitgossip)