Amsterdam
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TOO EARLY
Her first love affair had been perfect: sweet, brief and superficial, it had solved the problem of virginity in a timely, fuss-free way. This is what she thought as…
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HIS PLACES
‘It is not the “person” of the other that I need, but the space.’ – Roland Barthes Bookstore He grabs a book off…
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OLD BOYS
I loved our heels in the dark, the click-clacking on the pavement that said we made no excuses and if people stared at us we’d be like fuck it,…
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OFFICE FOR THE UNATTAINABLE
I saw the number on a lamp post. A round sticker, pink letters: In love with an unattainable? Call 020- … I was cycling home from the club, drunk.
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ON DEMAND
The house party in the kitchen is in full swing, but Sonya is feeling bored. She presses her forehead against the window in the corridor of the student…
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THE SMELL OF BROCCOLI
In her profile picture she was holding the phone, which she was using to take a mirror selfie, at mouth level. Now he understood why. She smiled broadly as…
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SUDDENLY IT’S GRONINGEN
Suddenly it’s there, the city of Groningen. Other cities introduce themselves slowly with fringes of industry, suburbs and posters under flyovers advertising parties and restaurants. The approach to Groningen,…
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THE BATH
In the black-and-white picture in Het Parool you are smiling, and before I start reading I already know: you’re dead. I lower the cat off my lap, plant my…
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THE DANNY WALLACE PRINCIPLE
Death operates on a tight schedule at Sunny Acres Cemetery, which has seen its ranking as our city’s most popular and picturesque graveyard rise to even greater heights in…
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THROWING THREE BALLS IN THE AIR TO GET A STRAIGHT LINE
She runs out the door without breakfast to take her child to daycare. In the classroom the Surinamese teacher is juggling three tangerines – she throws them all the…
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ZEAL
Maria breathes deeply. A slight smacking of her lips as if she were licking an ice cream, a little snore, a long hum, and she breathes out slowly. He…
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DROWNING
One summer’s day, I forgot to put my lenses in. My window was open, an insect flew inside and I killed it without knowing what species it was. This…
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FALLING
Will you give me a call now and then? she had said. She was standing beside my bed and pulling her top over her head. Bare-bummed, she slipped into…
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(AUROPUNCTATA)
There was a mirror in the basement and in those days, I avoided mirrors. Every time I caught a glimpse of the smirk on my face, I felt like…
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HEMISPHERES
A World of Hemispheres is a science-fiction novella by A.K. Anthony. The work remained unpublished and was destroyed by the author. The excerpts published here were reconstructed using…
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WIM
1. When my mum met her new boyfriend, who was just called Henk and who would later become my stepfather, God came into our lives, and he never…
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WITHOUT BONES
I live above the shop, and the shop has been closed for months now. I only sleep downstairs, where I’ve pushed all the beds together, pulled off all the…
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LARA CROFT FUCKS A MERCENARY
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/27-lara-croft-fucks-a-mercenary-maxime-garcia-diaz-no16.mp3 This isn’t about me or my desire. This is about Lara Croft’s breasts, and how the advanced graphics of 2006 meant they glistened after she came…
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THE FALL OF EROS
He should never have looked. And he hadn’t intended to look. His plan had been to stay away from that bloody warzone as much as possible. As they’d agreed.
Tentacular Thinking
Transgressive Intimacy
New York, 1900. A nurse from the Knickerbocker hospital arrives on her bike. Her agile, freely moving yet uniformed body seems to merge with the city architecture. One of the…
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SIGNS
Between the museum and the main road into the city, there is this lost piece of garden. Chairs stand on the grass, which do not belong with anything else. You…
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SHADOWLAND AND MELON PLANT
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/26-shadow-land-and-melon-plant-joost-oomen-no15.mp3 The button for the large sunbathing area on the roof is worn, half of the S is gone. I press three buttons lower.
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GIANNA IN ARCADIA
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/24-Gianna-in-Arcadia-Gustaaf-Peek-no15.mp3 First day Waited too long. She got up and then I was too late. Not even a look. Just as well. Maybe…
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SCHAUMAINKAI
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/30-schaumainkai-Julius-reynders-no-15.mp3 The client he had been working with these past few weeks was a nuisance. It was a big company, and there was a…
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THE SIGH
A watery springtime sun waves over the word ‘Oryctolagus cuniculus’ when suddenly I feel it: eyes staring at the back of my head. I cautiously look up from my…
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BEHIND THE WALL
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/24-behind-the-wall-no-15.mp3 She slaps me with the flat of her hand. My cheek blazes, she rests her hand on it and then gently strokes her fingers towards…
Commissioned Visual Contribution
Karel Martens
A selection of portraits from the digital guest book, collected during the exhibition ‘Karel Martens: Still Moving’ at Platform-L in Seoul from 08-10-2018 to 14-02-2019. …
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INNARDS
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20-NINA-WEIJERS-no15.mp3 Everything about him was slender and pointed, he had been bred that way, aerodynamic, a racing dog. Although he did not move slowly, not…
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THE SLUG
The ribbed edge upon which it moves glistens with slime. You’d like to take a lick of it with your tongue. Looking at it makes you shiver, a shiver…
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VAN OORSCHOT
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2-GERBRAND-BAKKER-no14.mp3 Simon looks out of the window. He has turned the chair around halfway, the chair where, very occasionally, a client sits and waits. He…
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HER MAN IS OUT
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/14-MARIJKE-SCHERMER-no15.mp3 As soon as I walk into the park, I see him. Like me, he is early. I take a quick look, half-hidden between…
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MARZIPAN
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/17-MAURITS-DE-BRUIJN-no14.mp3 Inside my coat pocket, there was the piece of cake wrapped in cellophane, which I crushed the moment I saw him. I was…
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OFF THE CUFF
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/HP_Selin-Kuscu-no-14.mp3 Leila walks along the wide pavement that leads in a straight line past the park to the sea. It’s evening, January. Obviously she’s not going…
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GRASS
Rippling rivers of light. Street lanterns reflected in shiny paintwork. A familiar click, the car locking shut. The softly fading rumble of an engine cooling off. Standing beside the…
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HOTEL LE JARDIN
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/6-MENSJE-VAN-KEULEN-no13.mp3 She looks around the room where they will have breakfast the next morning, amazed by the gilt-framed paintings of scarcely clad women on the pinkish-purple…
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NEWARK
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/1-KARIN-AMATMOEKRIM-no13.mp3 She wasn’t lonely. That wasn’t why she did it. It was the heat, instead, as well as the dirt of the city accumulating in the…
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RELAX, PLEASE
I’ve come at the most expensive hotel in the city for a massage. In the spacious dressing room I find my bathrobe and a pair of slippers, both wrapped…
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AROUND THE CORNER
The balding guy at the counter speaks English. Of course he does, I suspect I’m the first Dutch guest in a very long time. I reply in English, ‘Yes,…
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ADIEU, WESTCORD
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/21-Adieu-Westcord-Hannah-van-Binsbergen-no13.mp3 They’re in bed. Harpie and a man called Stefan, as far as she knows. Through a slightly open window they can hear the…
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‘SAY YES’
She stands on stage, sweating, struggling through her presentation. She’s been giving the same talk night after night, and she’s hearing herself speak as if from a distance. ‘Only…
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THE DEVELOPER
So he arrives at work on Monday morning, gets a coffee downstairs while his computer starts up, and opens his mailbox. He checked his messages before going to sleep…
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A ROOM FOR TWO
Vincent was a war correspondent. Sporting greasy black hair, a dimple in the three-day stubble on his chin, a closed-up hole in his ear lobe where he once wore…
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DORA KNOWS MORE
When I returned to the city, when the trees put their foliage on full display and small animals emerged from their burrows and nests for us to greet each…
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LAVA
‘Rafael Angel Uribe Serna, lawyer.’ Once I’ve checked in, the doors that are mostly meant to let no one out open to let me in. I know that…
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ENCOUNTER
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/4-DON-DUYNS-no11.mp3 The room is freezing cold, and reeks of testosterone. There’s loud techno thumping away, in a rhythm that makes me feel even more restless…
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EXIT 22
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/18-MAARTJE-WORTEL-no11.mp3 She’d already rung the bell a few times, and when she got upstairs she said she was sick and tired of having to…
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THE LUXURY OF THE VOYEUR
My feelings for you bordered on the uncontrollable. I thrive best where the boundary between allowing and rejecting becomes porous. I never begged you for anything, our relationship…
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LETTER TO H.
Sorry to keep you waiting so long. A letter involves a kind of letting-go that sex calls for, I thought, and then without realising it I became wary of…
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‘G’
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/12-DANIEL-ROVERS-no11.mp3 In writing you, calm, proud G., I see your cropped hair, following the curves of your skull, your shoulder blades, the dotted…
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ALLEYS OF DESIRE
The rattling sound of my wheeled suitcase echoes across the canal in the Amsterdam night. Apart from the occasional drunken cyclist, the city centre is deserted.
Some Thoughts On...
Cruising for Discretion
One of the most common aliases for poppers is ‘video head cleaner’, for some reason. fig 1: Rush is a room odorizer Poppers are the…
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BOSTINI
They’d spent the whole afternoon in bed in his sweaty attic room. The sun poured its rays straight through the roof as they French-kissed with the seedy horniness that…
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SYSTEMIC BREAKDOWN
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/15-KIRA-WUCK-no10.mp3 Usually I’m woken by Tom’s voice tickling my ear. ‘Morning Isa, slept well?’ He always sounds as if he’s also only just…
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THE PROMISE OF A WOMAN
E: You coming? A: Why’ve you gone to bed so early? Don’t you feel well? E: Well, I thought… A: Are you really tired too?…
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CRAZY EYES
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/9-ALMA-MATHIJSEN-no10.mp3 There’s never any warning. Perhaps that’s part of the deal, me not expecting it. Like you can’t have French fries…
Some Thoughts On...
Trendy Pornography
Trendy Pornography character set fig 1: By typing the ‘a’ an image of three women in a tiled room appears; one woman cups the breasts of another…
Musings
Bodies Electric
Long before any scientific knowledge about electricity existed, people were very well aware of shocks as well as they were witnesses to the sparkling lightning bolts thundering through the…
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Madame Clic Clac
Out of a vague sense that she had crossed my path in order to make something happen, and without being able to pinpoint what would happen, why it would…
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The Sex Shop
On average working in the sex shop had become a surprisingly mundane experience. Initially the excitement of entering such a different world than the one he was used to…
Encounter
- Dominique van Varsseveld
- Karin Amatmoekrim
- Sarah Arnolds
- Nick Axel
- Mercedes Azpilicueta
- Gerbrand Bakker
- Maria Barnas
- Abdelkader Benali
- David Bennewith
- Frédérique Bergholtz
- Marion Bloem
- Melanie Bonajo
- Daan Borrel
- Eglė Budvytytė
- Judith Couvee
- Eelco Couvreur
- Dimitris Dalakoglou
- Romy Day Winkel
- Maurits de Bruijn
- Nina de la Parra
- Alix de Massiac
- Richard de Nooy
- Nadia de Vries
- Don Duyns
- Hamid El Kanbouhi
- Gamal Fouad
- Johan Fretz
- Maxime Garcia Diaz
- Steff Geelen
- Susan Gibb
- Arnon Grunberg
- David Haines
- Thomas Heerma van Voss
- Marius Hofstede
- Huan Hsu
- Philip Huff
- Auke Hulst
- Fleur Jeras
- Richard John Jones
- Nicole Kaandorp
- Christine Kappé
- Ayşen Kaptanoğlu
- Asha Karami
- Maite Karssenberg
- Paul Kooiker
- Selin Kusçu
- Marijn Lems
- Ariah Lester
- Christina Li
- Cesar Majorana
- Canan Marasligil
- Mariposa
- Karel Martens
- Anna-Marie Mašková
- Alma Mathijsen
- Kiriko Mechanicus
- Kaweh Modiri
- Nat Muller
- Nicolini
- Ahmet Öğüt
- Joost Oomen
- Jamal Ouariachi
- Passion DEEZ
- Gustaaf Peek
- Petrovsky & Ramone
- Hannah Pezzack
- Patricia Pisters
- Marja Pruis
- Rachael Rakes
- Julius Reynders
- Julian Ross
- Daniel Rovers
- Sam Samiee
- Viviane Sassen
- Marijke Schermer
- Frank Siera
- Loveday Smith
- Aram Tanis
- Roelof ten Napel
- Florence Tonk
- Ko van ‘t Hek
- Hannah van Binsbergen
- Fiep van Bodegom
- Gilles van der Loo
- Froukje van der Ploeg
- Huib Haye Van Der Werf
- Rob van Essen
- Mensje van Keulen
- Hannah van Wieringen
- Timen Jan Veenstra
- Ivo Victoria
- Maria Vlaar
- Marwin Vos
- Judith Vrancken
- Niña Weijers
- Maartje Wortel
- Pete Wu
- Kira Wuck