Thursday, May 23rd at The Balboa Theater; 3630 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94121 featuring Chopping Mall and Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge hosted by Blair Van Auken
Blair Van Auken will be representing MallWalk in a live reading at The Balboa Theater in San Francisco this weekend, Saturday, March 30th, at 2PM as part of the Unnamed Footage Festival. If you happen to be a listener in The Bay Area we'd love
Confused animals thrash in the flood waters. We try our best, as Dr. Peter Kimley suggests, to tell the story from the shark’s perspective, among many others. No matter our angle, the scene is wet confusion, horror, and death. Is God watching f
Conrad finds himself within the body of the mall, at the bottom of the strange portal. Is it delusion or epiphany? Either way he emerges from a cloud of smoke and chooses his weapon for the final deluge. Multiple witnesses tell of that moment;
The dark of the movie theater, the light of the arcade, our two boys’ melancholic quest bifurcates into love and death, romance and oblivion. Blair navigates the sudden fortune of teenage affection as Conrad obsesses over an arcade cabinet from
Having successfully evaded security, our tragedians arrive at the mall’s central fountain, which is mocked up with lights to look like fire. There they brave a multi-character convergence with an old man mid-flashback, a mischievous set of bowl
The now dead mall once known as The Royal Galleria occupies the whole of Blair Van Auken’s memory. He strives through the fog of years to recall the start of that November day when he and his best friend, Conrad Cliff, came down from the K-Mart