Category: audio
Written pieces with audio accompaniment. Read along as you listen or go straight to my Bandcamp page. For more audio tales, check out the Cyborg Memoirs Mixcloud.
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Discipline Welcomes Beauty | A Cleaning & Organizing Grimoire
Please enjoy this audio work in its entirety as read from the original zine, available for purchase here. Sonic ambiance provided by Pauline Darkstar. Discipline Welcomes Beauty by M Téllez A bitch’s/witch’s grimoire. Discipline, cleaning, and organizing are things I’ve developed a reputation for, and this zine meditates on the principles behind my habits. Appreciated…
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DESIRE HOPE DESPAIR Speculative Storytelling Streamcast
Please enjoy this infrequent sci-fi/speculative storytelling & discussion series, with yours truly as the host and special guest neighbors from time 2 time. Episodes oscillate between the performance of original stories and beloved slept-on tales, with atmospheric audio accompaniment to elevate your listening experience. Intimate discussions related to the story material are a feature as…
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HEAT DEATH OF WESTERN HUMAN ARROGANCE
TRANSITIONAL TIMES TRANSITIONAL BODY by M Téllez She turned to me with half-lidded eyes, her mouth turned upward like a cat’s face. Her hands rested on the worn wooden surface beneath her congregation of plants. We needed nothing to see with, just the full moon’s cool blue cast. The slopes and lines of her shoulder…
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Ghost in the Shell and Body Crisis
My 2015 visit on episode 04 of illustrator/essayist/critic/badass Annie Mok‘s Lights Go Down movie discussion podcast. Sci-fi writer M Téllez of Metropolarity Collective (who is also my housemate) joins me to talk about a movie they’re an expert in, the 1995 Mamoru Oshii anime of Masamune Shiro’s manga, Ghost in the Shell. Music is from…
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The Corpse
ALL THAT'S LEFT | First Packet by M Téllez //you’ve been out there for a while now, suli. you ain’t passed out in a ditch or nothing right?// –>oh yeah sorry. just zoning out here. this side is just a lot of grass and trees blowing around// //sounds nice. that all?// –>yeah// //the plat side…
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My Other Body is In the Shop
ALL THAT'S LEFT | First Packet by M Téllez Not everyone is good at their body. I know mine’s fucked up. The joints are out of alignment and the energy deposits are unevenly distributed. Nothing fits right lately and people been staring at me when I walk around the hood, like yo is he gonna…
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Dark Eyes On the Road
ALL THAT'S LEFT | First Packet by M Téllez The dash instruments shed a comfortable amount of light between them; enough that Kay could still see their glimmer in Dimo’s eyes without the aid of other vision modes. They were transporting a hulker south, and you needed two people to do it safely––an operator and…
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Cyborg apocalypse
ALL THAT'S LEFT | Zero Packet by M Téllez Cyborg Apocalypse by All That’s Left CYBORG APOCALYPSE and how to be somebody! Global warming is for real, yo. Government here just means corporate pool party anymore. Everything is bankrupt, shut down, or trying to “protect the shareholders’ interests” by locking up shop to anyone not making…
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Ghost Town
ALL THAT'S LEFT | Zero Packet by M Téllez Ghost Town by All That’s Left “I like you.” “What?” “I like you.” “That’s sweet of you to say, Suli. What are you getting at?” “Just that.” Suli had a sing-song way of saying things that got right on Braga’s nerves sometimes. The malicious adolescent smile.…