The Journal of Jeffrey Vernon Matucha
Here is an excerpt from my novel The Falling Circle, a story about being down and out and punk in the big city. Available on Amazon.com It was an unusually cold night. The biting cold seemed to make the night extra dark. A good gust of wind would shoot by now and then as Preston …
This is the opening for my novel-in-progress What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? This work is the sequel to my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts. I have prepared this opening and am offering it up for feedback, as it is still a work in progress. Walking down her street, she …
An excerpt from my novel, The Clubber: A Tale of the Eighties, available now on Amazon.com “Your friend’s upstairs.” He turned around. It was Beth El, this time with a spaced out Throcker hanging off her arm. “What?” “Your friend Serge is upstairs.” “Serge?” “Yes.” No doubt Serge had made it to the club’s covert …
This is my top ten list of movies about Bohemians: artists and artistic types, fictional or otherwise. I realize some of your fave bohemian movies may not be on this list. If so, feel free to comment. I also will admit I have not seen some films that could fit into this list, such as …
This is an excerpt from my recently published novel The Falling Circle, available for Kindle and in paperback on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Circle-Jeffrey-Matucha-ebook/dp/B07K7NVKBW/ Talking to Gust Preston was meditating on the faint, translucent swirls oozing around the surface of his coffee when he heard someone bounding down the hall. Ka-flump, KA-flumP, KAFLuMP! The kaflumping got closer and …
Here are some quotes and short excerpts from my Eighties novel The Clubber, available on Amazon.com “Gimme a dollar!” grinned Jason. “Um, no.” “Then gimme a kiss.” “Sorry. A kiss costs a dollar.” “I know. That’s why I want the dollar.” He remembered being particularly impressed with one of the man’s works entitled Robot Ham. …
This is an excerpt from my alt-underground play Alex is Missing, a play about four crusty clubbers looking for their missing friend in the underground world of the concrete jungle, as they wade through wage workers, drug dealers, crazy parents, and all of the other underground chaos that makes up their lives on the edge. …
Various quotes from my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts, available on Amazon.com in print and Kindle form… “You are a stupid bloke,” declared Paul. “Why?” scraped straightlace. “Because skinheads smoke dope.” “What?” “I forgot the industrial band’s name.” “Greenway’s band. I forgot their name though. Something about a hamster.” “You can talk …
The Vehicle of Damnation by Jeffery Vernon Matucha “I have that stupid White Zombie song stuck in my head”. “Which song?” “Y’know, that MTV song of theirs.” Skye had not seen Spinny in more than a year. Skye had been bent over her old Plymouth, trying to determine why it …