https://specific.place specific place Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:21:32 +0000 https://specific.place en https://specific.place/about Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:26:51 +0000 specific place https://specific.place/about specific.place was conceived in 2020 by d st-amour, and is now a collaboration between s.f. ho, d st-amour, and each of the authors and artists invited to publish with us. we share an interest in sci-fi and speculative fiction, queer fiction, weird fiction, poetic fiction, non-narrative fiction, and we publish very. Very. Slowly. spec/fic is the first imprint of specific.place. we anticipate that in some distant future, there may be others. if you’re interested in purchasing items, please contact us via our contact form, or check out our list of stockists. if you have a proposal or idea, or wish to collaborate, please use the contact form to reach out. ︎ https://specific.place/George-the-Parasite-SF-Ho-1 Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:12:23 +0000 specific place https://specific.place/George-the-Parasite-SF-Ho-1 Now, George begins to tell a story with no language. It is a story that could easily lull you to sleep. Underneath is another narrative. Hidden away, this other story is a parasite that burrows into the core of whatever’s nearby, wrapping itself around the cells of its host. The moment when the host realizes its permeation, that which makes up its mind/body is forced to shift its form. Deep within their most secret shared selves they feel an intense craving to seek out more of their kind... <img width="1500" height="2100" width_o="1500" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7c17862879a239e0596a055edd9d0dedbc717ffe88090bd2bc79c5800bfa4b9/CPS_GTP_spine.jpg" data-mid="123403880" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7c17862879a239e0596a055edd9d0dedbc717ffe88090bd2bc79c5800bfa4b9/CPS_GTP_spine.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2100" width_o="1500" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7715e788681a7d1143aa9dca9d3ea3c7dd065b778858fbe2b45ea4b84fd0401d/CPS_GTP_front_other_anlge.jpg" data-mid="123403858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7715e788681a7d1143aa9dca9d3ea3c7dd065b778858fbe2b45ea4b84fd0401d/CPS_GTP_front_other_anlge.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2100" width_o="1500" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1b55d454e557bab3bec4b5b041e7131fe2ad3b022c505897d3fd8969f25fb7f/CPS_GTP_inside_pages.jpg" data-mid="123403884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1b55d454e557bab3bec4b5b041e7131fe2ad3b022c505897d3fd8969f25fb7f/CPS_GTP_inside_pages.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2100" width_o="1500" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d8503162d9b4ed86a966f8ca2ac751f703d3c548283d1856d0d25b9b2bff299/CPS_GTP_back_rocks.jpg" data-mid="123403882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d8503162d9b4ed86a966f8ca2ac751f703d3c548283d1856d0d25b9b2bff299/CPS_GTP_back_rocks.jpg" /> "As an experiment, S F Ho throws characters from Dennis Cooper's literary universe into a speculative world of Burroughsian brutality and paranoia -- the result is George, The Parasite, a truly novel novel, a hybrid unlike any you've read before." - Derek McCormack (Castle Faggot) &nbsp; "Reader, beware: the words in this book conspire against you and your grip on reality. Films, love songs, crowds on a busy street, the corner of a room, and the human body itself find new and strange expression as, in the words of SF Ho, “images with no previous provenance.” [...] The text worms into the reader’s brain and deposits a secret so terrible and delicious that the world itself begins to fray.Fans of Samuel Delany, Kathy Acker, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and nightmares will find something to love and to fear." - Nat Pyper (19 in 2021) George the Parasite is artist and writer SF Ho's first novel. A wandering, lyrical remembrance, GTP is a tale of sex, embodiment, love, boundaries, captivity and consent, and a human who falls in love with an alien in a movie. SF Ho is an artist, writer, and facilitator. Their parents immigrated to Turtle Island from Hong Kong in the 1970s and they have been living as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples for the past eleven years. They’re cultivating a practice of wary sociality, never finishing books, and being sort of boring. Content note: Sexual and intimate boundary pushing, torture, and death. Characters justify non-consensual behaviour while discussing consent. https://specific.place/zurdo-nat-pyper Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:21:32 +0000 specific place https://specific.place/zurdo-nat-pyper ⁂ The reptilian third eye on Zurdo’s forehead had been shut since birth. Frankly, Zurdo was unconvinced that it wasn’t just a stubborn wrinkle. It was 69.69, the year foretold by lip readers as the year of great inter-penetration. Zurdo didn’t know what that meant, and, truth be told, Zurdo didn’t like how it sounded... <img width="1000" height="1400" width_o="1000" height_o="1400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fc5e2a0281b9ab6842b3900bdc8f3eb118dfa0d73ce5e5a8cc0f9a0ce23c0c4/Zurdo-postcard_draft_Page_1.jpg" data-mid="238046570" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7fc5e2a0281b9ab6842b3900bdc8f3eb118dfa0d73ce5e5a8cc0f9a0ce23c0c4/Zurdo-postcard_draft_Page_1.jpg" /> The readings of the highest-rated lip readers were widely shared and received as cosmic divination. Unfortunately, Zurdo was a bad lip reader. Even so, Zurdo believed that if ze could read the lips of the right film, ze might finally recover the unrecoverable knowledges of zir ancestors and open zir long-dormant optic for good. Ze had heard rumors of a lost vid called “The White to Be Angry,” and now, ze had a name–– Vaginal Creme Davis. Equipped with these clues, Zurdo set off in search of the not yet foreseen… ⁂ Advance praise for Zurdo..! "If language is a virus, Nat Pyper is the vaccine" GB Jones “Nat Pyper has created the narrative device of my dreams, unlike anything I've seen or thought of before or even quite knew I wanted. This is an impossible text, not least of all because it exists in a world where the written word is a forbidden evil. Nonetheless, Zurdo and zir author take us down the perilous paths of language and knowledge, through the orifices of the world, the gastrointestinal tract of the social body, the revelations of genderqueer archives, and the murky depths of our own mysterious motivations. [...] I loved every freaky little encounter in this anti-apocalyptic loser's journey. Gross, funny, horny, and ultimately... eye-opening." &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lou Cornham Zurdo..! &nbsp;will be available in&nbsp;late April, 2026.&nbsp; Email us for details.Nat Pyper is an alphabet artist. They make fonts, write science fiction, create wearables for videos and performances, and research radical queer publishing histories. Their work has been shown at Chicago Artists Coalition, Chuquimarca Projects, Gene Siskel Film Center, and RUSCHWOMAN in Chicago, Printed Matter in New York City, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia. Their writing has been published by Are.na, Draw Down Books, GenderFail, Inga Books, Library Stack, Martian Press, and the Walker Art Center. They received their MFA from the Yale School of Art and are currently a 2021-22 HATCH Artist Resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition. https://specific.place/Page-nav Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:12:26 +0000 specific place https://specific.place/Page-nav Next Page&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://specific.place/GEORGE-THE-PARASITE-SF-HO Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:51:02 +0000 specific place https://specific.place/GEORGE-THE-PARASITE-SF-HO