Hanging out in some weird little arcade, I stumble across this interesting-looking game. I’m not sure why I feel so drawn to it; it’s basically just a side-scroller. The “interesting” part of the game is that is uses a two-handed touch-screen method for control. With the right hand you control the path of your character. […]
Twenty-first century reconstituted strip mall; buried in sand but well-contained in some impermeable geodesic dome. We (A. & I) descend through the longest escalator in history into this gray-lit, half-closed-and-boarded-up mall. My tattoo artist is here. When we arrive, I have forgotten what brought me there. A new tattoo? Something else? She seems happy to […]
Already, our return to Earth has been compromised. Was it that we could not get back fast enough? Or just that they were so far ahead? We’re armed well enough, we can still do damage to their swelling numbers on the surface below. It will be too late for many and possibly too late for […]
New designs. New layouts. Subdued colors but somehow still charged. Alive. They take on minds of their own. They have their own voices. They demands stripes. Larger than life diagonal stripes. They dominate and take over. (“How can you even talk?”) They’re holding me responsible. (“But I didn’t build you!”) They don’t care. They carry […]
Work has become a 24/7 affair. Once they discovered that I do not sleep, they found all sorts of creative ways to keep me there around the clock. They moved me back to my old space but gave me free reign over four times as much floor space. A gigantic desk with several computers; it […]
Late for an appointment. An office building. She holds the door for me; her kids looks too big to be in that stroller. We’re both headed to different floors but we also both hit the wrong button. In the mirrored reflection of the elevator door, I can see that I’m not me. It’s not (quite) […]
A. is pissed. She says that dinner is ruined because she cannot find the crockpot. At my desk, I turn around to discover that I had brought it into the office to cook my lunch. I mention this to her and the anger is now directed my way. How could I be so stupid as […]
The smell is overpowering. Like Her in death. No one can tell where it has come from. We pull our shirt collars up to our noses and wave our hands. The smell overtakes everything else. I’m elected to take care of it. I grab the garbage can and take it out to the edge of […]
The most boring baseball game in history is finishing. I’m here with my family (dad, mom, two brothers…) but we’re oddly out of sync chronologically. Mom is a bit too young but dad is about the right age. My one brother is somehow older than me now and my youngest brother is now reverted to […]
A dark, underground structure. There are huge circular, collapsible blades for cutting and crushing. A doctor (mortician? the city’s medical examiner?) is associated with this space. We’ve been investigating him. He’s the killer? They’re already dead when they come down here? We expect a grisly scene; we already know that this is where bodies are […]