Struck by malevolent storms our Sunday Comics columnist finds the ardour and expense of repairs compounded by the coordinated revolt of machines
Our columnist explores the language and the headlines of dying and killing, from Tibet to the United States to Iraq.
Buick returns in the final part of Jim Gabour's story from Blue Moons, Texas. (Start from the beginning of the story here)
Childhood friends Betty Daniels and Matty Sue Franklin - now both widows - are reunited in the public housing projects of Blue Moons, Texas. But Betty's son Buick is still missing in this seventh chapter of Jim Gabour's story.
In the sixth slice of life from Blue Moons, Texas we learn about a certain Estelle Flamingo and a moonlit leap of faith that brought into existence her child, Diana Flatrock, one Fourth of July. Start from the beginning of the story here.
Diana Flatrock dresses up to relive her confusing encounters with Buick and Anais Nin in a motel confessional before the local Methodist deacon. Diana's Dad Arty inisists on a form of punishment that, like Buick's abandoned Roadmaster, backfires. All this in the fifth part of a story about life an
Buick trades his guitar for a pair of boots and is on the road again, accomodating the presence of a hard-drinking literary guest as he tries to overcome the loss of Diana. Thinking on his feet helps him avoid a confrontation in this fourth part of the story. (Read chapters one, two and three).
In the third installment of the story, Betty's son Buick discovers the guitar and Diana Flatrock. Diana and Buick enter intimate and imagined territory, albeit accompanied two Parisian guests. (Read the first and second chapters)
In the second installment of the author's story of two childhood girlfriends we hear from Betty's prodigious son Buick Roadmaster, who begins to inhabit the voices of the Lost Generation in Paris. (Read the first chapter)
As Betty Daniels and Matty Sue Franklin grew older, the childhood friends braved each their own hardships and tribulations. The first part of Jim Gabour's fictional offering tells about the pains and joys of life's unexpected occurrences
As our author - clad in detritus - prepares himself for tomorrow's Mardis Gras and the forecast of huge lightning storms, he remembers striking a blow against a less than divine intervention predicting the Carnival's demise.
Following the Sandy Hook shooting, our Sunday Comics author remembers how his family were the victims of random gun violence and calls for the guns, the NRA lobbyists and the politicans who listen to them to go
