We arrive at the shelter with the night coming quickly, close on our heels and ready to consume us. I do not know what we were expecting. A log cabin? A English Tudor house? No matter. The shelter is octagonal and in many ways little more than a screened-in gazebo. Considering what we have just […]
The house knows your secrets. It keeps memories from you, it forms opinions about you, casts judgment on you. The rooms change shape when you enter, they reconfigure; the house wants you to feel at home but this is no place you’ve ever called by that name. But you recognize it in tiny fragments. The […]
We have a pet orangutan; she wanders the house and speaks to us in Sign. One evening, the orangutan tells us that she is pregnant and she dives into the swimming pool. We watch her for a bit, waiting for something to happen. The whole thing makes us very nervous. After a while, the orangutan […]
The mission, the secret has been compromised. Our own expedition was a success in as much as our craft — a lightweight, one-man, helium-propelled bicycle of an aircraft — returned to base. What none of us had banked on was that we would be pursued by a friend. (M.F., was that you?) His craft however, […]
There is no narrative, I am left with only three images. The path is a garden path. Flagstones form a jagged path that weaves in and out of some Civil War-era garden. You can tell that it is summer because all of the trees and bushes are green but none of their blossoms are left. […]
Third person, fly-on-the-wall type P.O.V. A Handmaid’s Tale-style near apocalypse. An evangelical Christian school; a real house on the hill sort of thing. No one knows how they’ve kept this thing a secret, this sprawling multi-wing complex. It’s the eve before the unveiling; the board of directors is giving a tour to some media folks […]
This island is full of clones. I have only been stranded here a few days and I have figured this out. On the third day, the island’s figurehead is rounding up all of the residents for a convocation and a feast. As we make our way from the beach toward the meeting place, I see […]
Moving in? A housing inspection. Haven’t we been in this house before? Felt its dangers? Felt its terrors? We wander halls that should be familiar as faces that are familiar but neither quite synchronize with memories lost or found. The carpets beneath our feet are ratty and reek but hold up under a scrutinizing eye. […]
In the bedroom, we watch the news; generals chase down that Revolutionary Homer Guevara. Interviews. Scenes of the troops. Sound of gunfire. The gunfire is so terribly close. The generals are dead and the revolutionaries are coming after us. Perhaps they believe that we are the soliders? The generals? Perhaps it is not the revolutionaries […]
A gorgeously shot historical drama featuring Roy Scheider? An outward naval base is attacked during events leading up to Pearl Harbor. You know instinctively that the attackers must be Japanese but they film features them all as Soviets. They sweep in with their planes and fast attack boats and lay waste to their base. Scheider’s […]