delwood finch
“All of us are tautened between the world around us and our world. The struggle is this: To resist snipping that tether; to stay awhile and say something.”
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classical music does not mean anything [[[ maybe it does ]]]
The revealing of gaseous smiles
Thrashing in the water (with Ducks)
the missing piece is the last found
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publishing credits (selected)
February 1987 - "Corrados and Campari - Underground in Van" - The Georgia Straight . A straight-up no holds-barred look into seedy Vancouver life. From high rolling coke-heads in Richmond to guys who fake having AIDS to beg on Robson Street, this gritty exploration won Delwood some small acclaim (film rights were tossed about at one point, but nothing ever happened), and the scorn of city officials.
July 1994 - "The Sinking of the Drader" - The Allentown Gazette . A blend of history and playful fiction involving the legendary pirate ship The Drader. Voluptuous mermaids, talking whales, and fearsome sharks inhabit Delwood's hilarious and touching reworking of this famous tale.
August 1995 - "There's This Smell, This Burning" - The Lehigh Valley Short Story Anthology . Delwood's first published short story. A father and son are inflicted with a nasty case of the clap after bedding the same woman. A cautionary tale about jealousy and fatherly meddling.
October 1997 - "The Gas Can Chronicles - Volume 1" - The Allentown Raveup . A somewhat true story of the pyromaniac Bladon Shaun, who terrorized the city of Allentown back in the fifties. Delwood shines a sympathetic light on Shaun, who was, cruelly, hastily, condemned to live out his days in a Pennsylvania State institution.
Since 1990, Delwood has been published sporadically in various street rags
and newspapers. He often uses the pseudonym "Marshall Tucker". These days,
he does contract technical writing ("propaganda", to quote Delwood) for
construction giant PCL, based out of Edmonton, Alberta.