You are brilliant. You are foolish. Your nature cycles like the sunlight.
Which are you, in any moment, in particular? How could you tell?
Can you reach behind yourself to pull your own puppet strings? Can you reach in front of you, lift your own palm to your face–’stop’?
Eyes will only see only [...]
Category Archives: Story
to a coin
October 31, 2011 – 12:04 am
Forms of Life
September 23, 2011 – 12:22 am
What redeems our inadequacies is that we are each but one being churning among diverse forms of life.
Jetsam: Parts
July 22, 2011 – 7:09 pm
What she discovered, after experimenting for several months, was that she could slip out from under the gaze of that part of her by telling it that it was silly, just superstition. She would run wild, tasting freedom on her lips like it was fresh blood. She would pretend to be made of [...]
Jetsam: Space Colony
July 15, 2011 – 11:13 am
Back on Earth they would speak dreamily about the space colony. They had never been there themselves, of course — it was light years away — and communication was very spotty. But Earth had grown dull and the colony was, after all, their progeny. They had invested so much in it, and [...]
Jetsam: A Stone
July 14, 2011 – 11:10 am
Jetsam from an emo period.
Every once in a while they would discuss the stone–its facets, its shine. They were proud but never satisfied. They would pick up their tools again and again to recut it. It was now a mere two-thirds of its original size.
The stone could not understand why they did [...]
When the internet goes out
December 29, 2010 – 11:50 am
When the internet goes out we’ll spend a month shuffling from shop to shop in search for a decent wifi signal.
SWM in Brooklyn
July 25, 2010 – 5:56 pm
As I am single and my roommate is away for the summer, I have taken on a lifestyle similar to a buzzard’s.
I inhabit a cave on the fourth story of my building, but as it is too hot to live in I spend my days shuffling back and forth on my roof, looking out over [...]
On Narrative Structure
July 15, 2010 – 12:36 am
Narrative is a High Level Data Structure
was the first thing I read this morning. It was a text message that Ethan Jucovy had sent the night before.
“Or…is data a high level narrative structure?” I responded, pleased with myself for having found something to say on the topic at 7:14 am. I was [...]
Grower and STV
July 6, 2010 – 10:33 am
Circa 2150, humanity discovers that an enormous spore the size of a comet has drifted into its solar system. Scientists study it and conclude that it is a kind of deep space megaflora that propagates slowly from star to star.
The first astrobotanists nurtured the plant with sunlight and the atmospheric chemicals of Venus, discovering that [...]
The Difficulty of Being a Bomb
July 2, 2010 – 10:30 am
By virtue of good breeding, Henry was an extraordinarily compassionate and generous young man. He contained a bomb that would explode at any minute and kill everyone in a twenty foot radius.
His unique burden gave him a sense of perspective which others, to his dismay, found magnetic.
“Be careful around me,” he advised. “There is [...]
