Harley Lethalm's Blog

I've made available to you all a terse selection of my juvenile writings (both prose and poetry, and without), absolutely free. You may download the ebook or, if you prefer, read it through the Goodreads interface. Several of the stories are quite juvenile ("The Gloaming Over Exeter" comes to mind, a tale I wrote at the age of sixteen in homage to Lovecraft) but many of them stand by their own merit as well-crafted writings, both in narrative and in prose. I offer the book free as it is not representative of my current work, but is merely a fractional collection of old habits and older interests. I hope you enjoy.Tailgating Malebolge: Short Stories and Prose Poems

I've just recently published a slim volume of my early writings through Amazon's unique Kindle-pub feature, and thought I would share it with you all. The work touches on themes of aestheticism, poverty; the poverty of aestheticism (asceticism?)
It also includes a few choice essays on Heidegger's use of Dasein as an "I-placeholder," the advantages of opium, and the "scholars of war." Curiously, I've also chosen to make available a rather gnomic piece of my (as yet) unpublished novel, that I hope will appeal to some and purposefully fend off others.
If you're at all interested in grabbing this little novelette of poesy and puffy pretense, you can find it here: This Flower in Shambles