Apeiron Review | Issue 6

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Tom Holmes

After Hours with Orange Here is the defense against the negative forces of denial and death. Here in the city of taverns, dance clubs, and after-hour sex parlors. Here, in the night, with the presence of other and uncanny. And everyone who is exposed to or immersed in its early hours is tinged with mimetic failure. Here is the spectacle, the pleasure dome. Here, the debutants of the night forge wooden masks and iron umbrellas to hide their grotesque origins. There are no class differences here, no towers, no debt, no normal. Whoever enters its subterranean becomes a joke, so every entity is dispossessed of its threat. At its core, Orange germinates purity and the ancient— the seeds of rebellion. At its core, Orange is metaphysical and real as a belly, empty or full. Here is where the debutants may carry oils and paint sleep with fingers.

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Dispossession

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pages 66-71

The Other Woman

1min
page 65

Aurora, Wǒ de ài

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page 62

Lately They Have Been Telling Me

1min
page 64

Stones

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page 61

Fatherhood

4min
pages 57-60

Angle

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page 53

Father

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page 56

Thinking of Nothing

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page 52

Mikey Comes Homes

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page 55

Kitengela

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page 49

I Prefer My Flag

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page 50

Natural Enemy

3min
page 51

My 95

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page 40

Throwing Stones

10min
pages 45-48

In a Dream of Slow Moving Traffic

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page 39

The Undercarriage

3min
pages 36-37

Winter Begins in Berlin

1min
page 43

Road Trip

1min
page 42

Airbag

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page 38

First

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page 25

The Best Days

2min
page 35

The Endless

10min
pages 21-23

Cave-diving

2min
page 30

Lac Bernard

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page 31

The Thief

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page 29

The Passion of) Joan of Arc

1min
page 19

The Revivification of Charles Josiah West, Age 82

1min
page 18

After Hours with Orange

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Southern Girls

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page 17

The Malfunction of a Small Airplane as Seen From the Ground

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pages 7-8

Birdcage

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Interpreting the Diagnosis

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page 16

Utopia

1min
page 14

Naked Guy

3min
pages 12-13

5 a.m. quiet

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page 6
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