Axis history ...

[Tyranor]

Those tabs would be awesome thing to gaze unto. But otherwise don't you affraid to reveal to much and spoil few secrets of TAOP creation? We are just a bunch of hungry Argh my spines consuming everything what relates to TAOP you know

[rlecadavre]

darkcrawl said:

pages.prodigy.net/gobackstage/chaos-digest-v31-40.htm

the link's broken and i can't seem to find any page hosting the stories by 'googling' their titles. does anyone have them saved that they can post up, or an updated link?

[Darkcrawl]

Try looking up the story title with author name (best to put Michael Blenkarn as he wrote more). This used to work in Google.

[rlecadavre]

i tried that but alas, there were no results. i'm beginning to lose hope

[Mike]

One of these days I really -am- going to go through those stories, tidy them up and generally decrapify them. I wouldn't bother looking round at the moment, for the time being they're just not worth your effort.

[rlecadavre]

just keep us posted then!

[Mike]

Fiction of Perdition is coming soon...

"The Broken Seal" has been redrafted and retitled as "The Offering", with a completely different ending. "Daddy Long Legs" has also been revised, though I've taken pains to preserve the original text as much as possible. Both are largely up to date with the current state of the TAOP/PF universe.

I'm currently waiting for feedback from within the ranks; after that, they may well be tweaked a little more before going public.

[mat]

Heya, just checked back over the old link that someone posted a while ago, and it doesn't seem to work anymore. I remember getting hold of several of the short stories but i'm not sure if I got them all. Is there any chance of one of you posting up the complete collection please, along with the revised versions you're currently working on.

Thanks.

[Mike]

Hmm, I don't know about that. Most of the early tales are now completely out-of-date conceptually, and not to put too fine a point on it, fairly embarassing.

[mat]

hahaha fair enough....how about at least the rest of Whiporwill House Affair please? (spelling??!) I was enjoying that one for what I did read of it.

[mat]

Hiya, just to clear something up for my own mind....does Chapter 4 of The Whippoorwill House Affair finish with the line "the bottle of bleach in my hand" or have I missed out on some?

Thanks.

[MyklonB]

I've no idea; it's been nearly six years since I looked at "Whippoorwill...". To be honest, having browsed round my computer, I don't think I have the full thing anymore.
Oh, and it was never actually finished anyhow...

[Tyranor]

As this topic concerns existence of TAOP in a whole I started wonder about one thing. Guys mentioned that Middlesbrough's surroundings played large role as creative influence but as I understood both Mike and Brooke moved to Newcastle, right? How thing will turn when this crucial factor is gone...
...Or maybe it is not crucial anymore...

[Dalihrob]

Maybe the wrongness of middlesbrough reaches even newcastle.

*Silent hill 4 anyone?*

[Mike]

Well, throughout Axis's entire existence I've lived mostly away from Middlesbrough. I'd demo ideas and (to a lesser extent) full songs at university in term-time then bring them back to Boro in the summer holidays for Brooke to pass judgement on, help revise, record properly and cover with horrible noises. Given that I lived there for the first 18 years of my life and Brooke for the first 26 of his. Les still lives there, my parents still live there. I don't think we have to worry about the influence vanishing just like that. It's a little like asking ex-concentration camp inmates if they're still bitter about the Nazis now that they don't live in Auschwitz anymore.