Catherine Eisner

Friday, 30 May 2025

Vignette 9: Twenty-five words.*

Reclusive maiden aunt requests brother to park his motorbike outside her house to deter suitors. Bachelor, attracted to motorbike, visits h...

Sunday, 13 April 2025

AI Catastrophe! Ultimate Torment of the Species: Interrogation by Chatbot.

Once, many years ago, while studying a theatre programme, I read in a note on performers the observations of the polymathic opera director J...

Monday, 17 March 2025

Vignette 8: Twenty-five words.*

Petrashevsky once wore a woman’s dress in Kazan cathedral. When a deacon protested, Petrashevsky replied: ‘But you are clearly a woman m...

Monday, 24 February 2025

Vignette 7: Twenty-five words.*

The younger brother grew so tall and strong the older brother wore his hand-me-downs. The ...

Sunday, 2 February 2025

Homage to René Magritte

Monday, 27 January 2025

Vignette 6: Twenty-five words.*

He’d once sold cannabis to a troupe of Moroccan tumblers. ‘It was like selling refrigerators to Eskimos,’ he’d bragged, ‘and even the...

Monday, 20 January 2025

Vignette 5: Twenty-five words.*

‘ You on a punitive expedition?’ the colonel mocked. ‘I’m not joking, sir!’ protested his youngest subaltern, who’d triumphed play...

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About Me

Catherine Isolde Eisner: Author of Sister Morphine, Salt Publishing 2008. Published also by Ambit, MsLexia, Stand, Strange Attractor journal and by Arts Council Poetry Collection website overseen by London’s South Bank Centre. Published 2011, Listen Close to Me: Hidden Lives of Love, Madness, Murder, Loss and Deception (Salt Modern Fiction). Published 2014, A Bad Case and Other Adventures of Disturbed Minds (Salt Modern Fiction).

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