Once upon a place, in a time far away into the future, but perhaps still in Deva and Felix’s lifetime, the first Earth simulation game was installed in a desert casino. The people who had made careers out of pitching the idea that humans are all sentient video game characters, all had aneurysms when thisContinue reading “Robert plays a video game”
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intermission
Somebody passed the glass contraption to Ian, an oversized semi-waterfilled beaker with a large cylinder extending out of the opening atop the beaker and with a pipe bowl slotted into the beaker’s side. Join me behind his eyes as he grips the cylinder. Feel the glass warmed by his friends’ hands and sticky but notContinue reading “intermission”
the first part of a nightmare
The man named Xam sat in the same spot, in front of the same shop, on the same cobblestone side street, every day. He had no solid memory of the day before or plan for the day after. He sat with his legs bent at the knees and stretched out in parallel, soles flat onContinue reading “the first part of a nightmare”
Gramaphonomicon
“Indulge me if you will; picture this:…” he said as if speaking from the center of a circus ring or to an enamored classroom full of undergraduates. He was however speaking to his nephew who rolled his eyes so intensely the musculature controlling his eyelids ached for a moment. Jerome continued undaunted. “Picture this: aContinue reading “Gramaphonomicon”
Up On A Time
“What does ‘Once upon a time…’ mean anyway,” she muttered to herself and her then still supportive best friend who got a chuckle out of it. ‘Think it out before you’re skeptical of something’ the almost annoyingly soft voice of her least hated teacher chimed in Luz’ head. Upon, on a time, on time meansContinue reading “Up On A Time”
Formations
The caravan took the space of about four playing fields when it stopped like this, moving from a straight orderly three family-or-other-social-unit-wide line to a snakelike formation encircling each caravan leader’s makeshift hut like a semi-formed spiderweb. A seemingly person-made plateau had been spotted at the caravan leader’s ten o’clock position and scouts had beenContinue reading “Formations”
Testament
After all copies of the Third Testament were commended to the soil to avoid references to informational purges and other unfortunate mob movements in modern history, a man not unlike myself failed to notice a shoeless nappy-locked bus stop dweller in a track suit indecisively shambling toward the center divider line on a busy streetContinue reading “Testament”
We || Waves
I know your name, but we’ve never met/I’d shake your hand, but that would cheapen the bet//I have been where you have also been too/Or else I would not be here talking to you || By the time that this song hits your ears/I will long ago have a disappeared//And I don’t care what theseContinue reading “We || Waves”
the First Stone
We melted down our glass houses, into throwing stones/The beauty of our see through house was we never felt alone/But once it became hard to tell the mirrors from our own/We lit a fire and waved good bye to the comfort of our home Now we’re back where we began, in the desert sand/The handsContinue reading “the First Stone”
Regarding Hot Sauce
There are only a few hot sauces I know by name but I like them all in their own way. Did you know that salsa means sauce and is generally reserved to refer to finely ground, liquified ingredients that most definitely include peppers and as such does not refer to diced things like pico deContinue reading “Regarding Hot Sauce”
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