Her absence
luscious and pendulous
rhythmic and sussurant
respires beside me in the darkness Continue reading
Her Absence
Posted in Love letters, poetry, Pornography with tags August Ames, poetry on April 19, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
Okinawa Calling: Sensei Damien Martin on Rediscovering the Roots of Karate
Posted in Journalism, Martial Arts with tags autism, BJC, Bob Jones, Damien Martin, Goju Ryu, Jim Armstrong, kata, Okinawa, reality-based self-defence, Taira sensei, Zen Do Kai on February 25, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Magazine, Volume 31, Number 6 December 2017/January 2018
Okinawa is the birthplace of karate. Japan’s fifth-largest prefecture was a cauldron of conflict during the second world war and is now a bucolic territory, known to boast one of the largest populations of centenarians in the world. Continue reading
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Fighting in Public Places
Posted in Fiction on February 17, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
Final
I don’t believe in threats. A threat is specific, and knowable. It comes from you, and it’s contained and bordered by words. Fear, however, is personal. It’s amorphous and endless. Like a gas, it expands to fill a space.
“You’re done! You’re done!” said the others.
“I’m done when I say I’m done,” I replied, trying to find his eye. Continue reading
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Fighting in Public Places
Posted in Fiction on February 10, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
3.
Jester Mitolo Cabernet Sauvignon from McLaren Vale, South Australia.
She never loved you.
Further down, Kaysler Cabernet Sauvignon, Barossa Valley.
She never loved you.
In the next rack, Saltram’s Barossa Shiraz.
She never loved you.
I opted for the Kaysler. Continue reading
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Fighting in Public Places
Posted in Fiction on February 5, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
2.
Maybe she didn’t love me. Worse, all those times we lay in each other’s arms at night, she may have just been doing that so I’d keep paying her registration fees and mobile phone bills. Continue reading
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Fighting in Public Places
Posted in Fiction on January 28, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
1.
Night. A depthless, crystalline dark. I was lighting candles when the phone rang.
“Hey Monkey,” I said, “How’s it going?” Continue reading
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World and the Crime She Committed Against Her Own Face
Posted in Love letters with tags Cormac McCarthy, Ellsworth Kelly, Leonardo Da Vinci, Merzouga, Sahara desert, Stendhal Syndrome, Zagora on January 4, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
We met at the gym. I can remember the handful of occasions I had seen her before we spoke, before she flowed inside the parameters of her name. Continue reading
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Chris Bradford Versus Steve McKinnon: Powerplay 36
Posted in fighting, Kickboxing with tags AK47, Chris Bradford, K1 rules, Powerplay, Prestige Fight Series, Shakespeare, Steve McKinnon, Top Tier Muay Thai on December 22, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Chris Bradford meets one of the world’s best cruiserweight kickboxers on Saturday, May 12 of next year. He sits down to tell JARROD BOYLE all about it. Continue reading
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Posted in Ben Edwards, Boxing, Kickboxing, Real Men with tags Ben Edwards, Boxing, Canberra, Duke Didier, Jeremy Joiner, jiu jitsu, Kickboxing, MMA, Monaro Fight Circuit on November 16, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Ben Edwards is a beast. After making a significant impression on international heavyweight boxing and kickboxing, he is poised to make an elephantine splash at the deep end of the swimming pool of MMA. He fights Westside MMA stalwart Jeremy Joiner this Friday night in Canberra on Monaro Fight Circuit 26. Continue reading
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Morbid Love
Posted in Morbid Love, Real Men, violence against women with tags A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway, Hitting Home, Ken Lay, Q&A, Rodney Hall, Roland Barthes, Rosie Batty, Schroedinger, The Atlantic, The Australian Newspaper, The Guardian, Vice on September 13, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Aftermath/Afterword
The thought of publishing this on my blog made me sick. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 