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Songwriter
Tyndall
Austin, TX
1997
The Novella
OFFLINE
A college dropout smashes his phone, pockets forty-three dollars and a swollen eye, and boards a Greyhound east. He is going cheap and far, and he does not much care where. On the road he meets Mira, and loses her before he understands what she was. Put off the bus in a Hill Country town called Helms, he washes dishes through a long summer among people who keep their own counsel and men who believe the lizards are older than the rocks. Then what the town has been agreeing not to know turns out to have his name in it. OFFLINE is a debut novella about work, witness, and what a man carries in his pocket across half a country before he learns what it is. For readers of Willy Vlautin and Denis Johnson's Train Dreams. Sign up and you'll be first to know the day it goes on sale.
Short Fiction
Casey Jones
In a sunlit record shop on Congress, a man who doesn't care for music, and keeps his walls and his past deliberately bare, falls for the girl behind the counter, who christens him Casey Jones and sends him home with a stranger's posters.
Remote Control
In a floodlit arena and the neon city beyond it, a battered rider is fed, paid, and passed hand to hand through a world of gold-toothed handlers, steered like a machine by people who own more of him than he does.
Ren Takeda
In a warehouse gym by the Sumida train tracks, a runaway kid and a trainer who traded his own dream build something out of grit alone: the fighter who never leaves the ring first.
Music
About
One voice, told three ways.
Blake Tyndall writes fiction and records music as Tyndall. His debut novella, OFFLINE, arrives this year. His short stories live here, free to read. His songs live on every streaming platform.