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Robert plays a video game

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”

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”

The Downside

“The downside is, it’ll rip you apart. You live, connected with the beast that’ll slowly manifest as rips, tremors that’ll eventually end in your death. Everyone says they’ll do anything. Instead, let me warn you; there’s an abundance of fear in death. And you’ll be lonely in death. “You’ll perform perfectly well in public butContinue reading “The Downside”

For Immature Audiences Only

An explanation of misunderstood songs a.k.a. Why I have no friends I wrote and recorded a song once called Idiot Kids (see soundcloud.com/wartband), before I ever heard an Eliot Smith song, and it was about how holocaust deniers are wrong but so too is it stupid to be fighting over the desert land of theContinue reading “For Immature Audiences Only”