Gabriel Sann

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In part 7 Reubens and the narrator visit a suicidal borough and come across a very strange bookstore.

slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com/p/7-archway

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Still at it!

slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com/p/6-dulwich

Part 6 Today, Reubens buy some drugs from the worlds nicest dealer, and we learn more (perhaps) about Reubens' project

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Yeah but suppose you're only 2?

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5. Vauxhall Reubens decides he needs to Escape

Reubens decides he wants to see what young people do and ends up in Vauxhall... Spies, Joseph Conrad, George Sand gender fluidity and throwing away a girl's phone number.

slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com/p/5-vauxhall

I think it will be a long tour around the inner suburbs, but the final Apocalypse will likely be in Beckenham, where Bowie lived for a while and where my mum used to drag me around the shopping centre when I was very small.

4. Sydenham In which Reubens and I visit an old friend

I'm still writing, despite all that (gestures toward the world)

Reubens and his heroic assistant visit an old friend south of the river. They take drugs.

slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com/p/4-sydenham

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“‘to live’ and ‘to dream’ are at every point synonymous;”

—Jorge Luis Borges

WEIRD LIT - A Primer I didn't write this. I met this guy in a pub way back when and I just wrote down what he said. It looks legit but this guy was like totes unreliable narrator.

Do you want to know more about #weirdlit? Neither did I.
But then, I met this guy in a pub in London, and boy did he set me right.
Read more:
wellthatsweird.substack.com/p/weird-lit-...

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Slouching Towards Beckenham | Gabriel Sann | Substack Ghosts, Disappearances, the City: Another London. Click to read Slouching Towards Beckenham, by Gabriel Sann, a Substack publication. Launched 9 days ago.

Reintroducing myself to #BookSky: I'm Gabriel, serializing weird fiction about London's hauntings and subterranean spirits.
In "Slouching" a narrator documents his friend Reubens' project to decode the city. New chapters weekly (ish): slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com

As I threatened previously I've started the blog. Its mainly old character sketches for novels and short stories which I have re-arranged using a (to me) interesting framework. (HT Robert Bolano).

Anyway, here we go.
gabrielsann.substack.com

After endless procrastination, I've finally started writing again. As an outsider (in several ways), I'm probably the wrong person to map British literature, but here we are. Gatekeepers, gate-crashers, authenticity police, authenticity criminals, humans, bots... and occasionally, actual books.