Dear Sis, Ca va? Ha ha cava bien ; ) How are you and james? I’m really sorry i didn’t call you back the other day, don’t read anything into that. We should totally go for a drink sometime, catch up! I can’t remember what it’s like to be hungover. That’s probably for the best [...]
In a blackness as intense as the farthest recesses of space, a tiny constellation of lights spilled their brightness into the murk. Up close, shafts of light illuminated the smooth legs of a vast metallic starfish, clinging alone and radiant in the shadowy landscape. Along one limb, in one of the brightly glowing windows, the [...]
On 79th street, the American Museum of Natural History. Glide up the grand, granite steps to the gleaming, echoing entranceway. Up and over the babbling heads of centipede families queued by terse, bristling guards feeding sacs into clicking security machines. Through the main hall, spiderworks of old bones tower; the young gape and point and [...]
Slow eyes and morning light. Synthetic tones, recorded voices. Starting and stopping. Tuesday’s conductor looks exactly like a Vogon. Squared, lumpen head. Fraught teeth in a squashed face under a gleaming comb-over. Swaying heavily side to side, nodding shiny-lipped at tickets brandished like crucifixes. Is it wrong to select your table based on the female [...]
On an island, on a mountain, under perpetual cloud, a museum sits, damp and peaceful. Below the roof, the space is refined; acoustically perfect. An expensive sound system, keeping distance from the walls, fills the air with a selection of exquisitely resonant string pieces. A small plaque discreetly advertises the manufacturer. Violin notes dance from [...]
This time, from high above the earth the angled sun catches a network of red tile roofs below, an intricate spidering of tiny twisted copper wires. Live and sparking with some ley energy, drawn above ground and urban. Tiny windows spilling light as transistor buildings pulse and fire, executing some ponderous calculation spanning centuries, tentatively [...]