Logodrome Stories Archive

Heterodichotomous Ornithogonality

The third of January stories. This week’s theme: fraud.

The Pole from the Sky

The first (and second) of January Stories.

The Curious Incident with Lord Piddlington

Some impressions of the material and immaterial.

Hermit and Six Toes: Part IX, final.

In which the secret of flight is discovered. Written by Victor Pelevin. Translated from the Russian by A. Baylin. (Beginning here.)

Hermit and Six Toes: Part VIII

In which the end of the world is nigh. Written by Victor Pelevin. Translated from the Russian by A. Baylin. (Beginning here.)

Hermit and Six Toes: Part VII

In which Six Toes is marked and Hermit delivers a sermon. Written by Victor Pelevin. Translated from the Russian by A. Baylin. (Beginning here.)

Hermit and Six Toes: Part VI

In which Six Toes learns about love and observes the gods. Written by Victor Pelevin. Translated from the Russian by A. Baylin. (Beginning here.)

Hermit and Six Toes: Part V

In which Six Toes learns about death and exercise. Written by Victor Pelevin. Translated from the Russian by A. Baylin. (Beginning here.)

Hermit and Six Toes: Part IV

In which Hermit and Six Toes encounter a rat. Written by Victor Pelevin. Translated from the Russian by A. Baylin. (Beginning here.)

Hermit and Six Toes: Part III

In which the heroes engage the crowd. Written by Victor Pelevin. Translated from the Russian by A. Baylin. (Beginning here.)

Hermit and Six Toes: Part II

In which Hermit and Six Toes expound their views of the unverse. Written by Victor Pelevin. Translated from the Russian by A. Baylin. (Beginning here.)

I am translating another story by Victor Pelevin, a Russian writer. This is the one that put him on the map in the early 90’s. It’s rather long, and divided into nine parts. I will publish a part a day, as I finish them, over the course of the coming two weeks.

The Doomsday Canticle: Part III

The third installment in a Lovecraftian novella round-robin I and my friends at Rhetorical Device, Ftrain and Brokentype are publishing as we write it. Jack wrote the beginning. Paul wrote the previous installment. Alex wrote the next installment.

A Boy Called God

The peripeteia of meaning.

Yorik

One business had ended, another began.

Once Bitten

Never trust unlicensed shamans.

Rapture

A letter from the beginning of the end.

Starson and Wordson

…get to the bottom of it all.

Ignat the Witch and the People

I recently talked to a friend about the Russian writer Victor Pelevin. The conversation prompted me to go online and dig up an archive of Pelevin’s short stories. This is a quick translation of one of them that I liked.

Frames

The dangers of living in the information age.

Tape #113

A morsel of flesh-eating goodness.

Identialism as the Highest Stage of Dualism

An excerpt from a Victor Pelevin novel, in my translation. Part I.

Identialism as the Highest Stage of Dualism (cont’d)

An excerpt from a Victor Pelevin novel, in my translation. Part II.

Bite Me