Vista’s death was such a beautiful death to die. The world was ending again today, when I got up. It’s been doing that since as long as I can remember. I have shreds of memories that seem to paint the world with more consistency. I remember sunlight, and clearly distinct seasons, for example. That’s not […]

What precisely was found when we burst into the laboratory of Dr. Finnegan Moss, late Professor of Neurology at Miskatonic University, has never been publicly acknowledged. A sanitized version was released: the professor was found dead, victim of an unfortunate laboratory accident. These many years later, my body riddled now with cancer and disease, the […]

I can only chew when the air conditioner is on. It is an old, boxy thing, with a temperamental thermometer. I remember the meaning of such words, and less sharply owning such a thing, once. The device runs, chugging in the window, on and off every few minutes as it struggles against the New England […]

She sat at the desk, tapping her keyboard, liking the click of the keys but not typing anything of worth. With a sigh she peered out her window at (her prison?) Providence, her home. The buildings rose up, thrusting their cement edifices into the gray skies. Rain fell onto the city, cleaning it, making it […]

Wave on wave, each with increasing virulence, is dashing this new religion of whiteness on the shores of our time. -W.E.B. Du Bois, ‘The Souls of White Folk’ 1920 ~ Every day was a chance to enjoy the circus by the sea. Milky sunlight, refracted by frosted window panes, was cut with the sickly yellow […]