BLANKENSHIP & DAWES IN THE ISLAND OF IGNOMINY by Jens Rushing

This is the story of two English gentlemen on a cruse. The cruse liner sinks and they find themselves stranded on an island. On this island they encounter strange spider like beings with human heads.

Wow, really, spiders with human heads. Okay, so the spider things with human heads believe that humanity is vile and corrupt. The source of human evil is the human body, hungers and lusts. They believe that they have found perfection. This perfection is the preservation of the human mind through severing the head from the evil body and transplanting it onto one of these spider bodies. Okay, it sounds weird, but the way that they explain it, perhaps not.

What impresses me most about Rushing’s writing is his ability to write with in a genre and turn it on its head making it his own. In this example, Rushing is using the Victorian travel log. It reminds me a little of the Heart of Darkness, discovering strange and new tribes.

At any rate, Pantechnicon, Issue 6 is free to down load as a PDF. So, if you have a few minutes and would like something weird, strange, and entertaining, check out this story (and Rushing’s website: http://www.jensrushing.com/).

Rushing, Jens. Blankenship & Dawes in The Island of Ignominy. Pantechnicon, Issue 6 p 21 - 47