Killing the Bambi

Alan McCormick / Jonny Voss

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During their cull, two turncoat deer with antlers like aerials stand vigil at the park gate. Banshee men with elastic strangle arms make long spooky shadows against the trees. The moon bends its searchlight and the shots ring out. Reindeer fall from the sky; blood rains and collects in crimson puddles—the sinister sniper men untangle out of branches and tip toe their shadows around the park's edge, and close out the night with the sound of their squawking. Kitchen hyenas wait as Bambi breathes its last.



© Alan McCormick / Jonny Voss

imageABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jonny Voss creates the pictures and Alan McCormick writes the words. The excerpts from Dumpsters were inspired by summer walks around Vauxhall and Walthamstow in search of discarded objects. Recent collaborations are even more accidental but like all their work share a desire for spontaneity and impulsiveness. They are also working on an illustrated children's book, Udo's Search for the Two Colins.

Alan McCormick's fiction has been widely published and an assortment of his stories have appeared previously on Dogmatika, whilst you are likely to see Jonny Voss's pictures every day, on billboards and in shops—you can discover more at Jonny Voss.com. Further McCormick & Voss collaborations can be found in Volume Magazine 2 and on Dead Drunk Dublin.