The November air was cold, but not
cold enough to still the energy of the great white towers. They spun and spun as always – huge sails whirling around, always seeming just
slightly faster than they should be.
What the Giants were Saying is a dark-hued and surreal fable on the theme of creativity. It is an
extreme horror tale of artist's block, tattoos, Don Quixote, copper wire... and wind turbines! Always wind turbines! It tells of a landscape
artist desperately trying to escape his own feelings of mundanity and
having hallucinatory encounters both with those great white whispering
giants and a wild tattooed girl who pushes creative experience to the
very limit and knows that the towers are the key to something
remarkable. Tattoos, Windmills, turbines, human skin and copper wire... with these keys a world of supernatural change is unlocked – and
supernatural creation. After all, what could creativity be like when
such things as pain, life and death no longer have the same meaning?
It's simply a choice between one life and another.
* * *
Cal pinned the tattooed girl's skin to the small artist's canvas and stood looking at it, a tear trickling down his cheek.
What the Giants Were Saying is accompanied here by the shorter work that inspired it, Red Fire, a
piece that pushes the boundaries of extreme horror into a visionary and
surreal world of love and pain, great white moths and tattooed skin, and above all, into the world of story itself.
I cannot see any more – and you want me to read you?
These two connected tales are both horror writing at its most spectacular and extreme.
