Cosmic Slab

1 Min

Not long after arriving in this world, I was made aware of the monolith’s existence. This object was on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Nobody dared to call it by name and yet, its existence constantly intruded everyday conversations. Not many people had actually seen it. The monolith. From the…

Read More

The Queen of the Desert

1 Min

I felt the blinding might of the midday sun overpower me. I had no way to tell the time, other than to rely on my intuition. With every step forward, my feet sank into the sand ever so slightly before I could lift them up again. I was loosing gallons…

Read More

The Nightmare Suit

/
1 Min

You might assume that I had no dreams in this place. I wouldn’t blame you. Everything I have told you so far sounds like a dream. A nightmare I have yet to wake up from. But I can assure you, I had dreams. I went to bed every night, hoping…

Read More

Sea of Faces

/
1 Min

Can you call a place home when you feel like an intruder in it? It’s not that I lacked experience in this department. I had come to old Europe in search of a value system my country has long left behind. Yet, in this labyrinth of flowing pipes and whispered…

Read More

A Speck of Dirt

/
1 Min

Memory works in mysterious ways. Time moves forward relentlessly, with no regard for anyone’s well-being. I can’t really tell you how long I’ve been here. On some days, it’s hard to say where "here" even is. My story used to be simple: an American living in the heart of old…

Read More

Flowing Along

/
1 Min

Let me tell you a bit more about the most distinct feature of this strange new world. The intricate system of interconnected pipes that made the clocks tick, the people breathe, and their hearts beat. I don’t know how it works, but everything was connected to these pipes. This world…

Read More

If Pipes Could Fly

/
1 Min

This man had ripped the band-aid off. It’s hard for me to talk about these events. All this happened so many years ago, but due to their increasingly unsettling nature, I feel it is both my blessing and curse to be able to tell this story. My encounter with this…

Read More

The Man Who Stole a Moment

/
2 Mins

Believe me, what I am about to tell you defies all logic or reason, but it happened. These events took place exactly as I am about to lay them out for you. This must have been the late ’90s, during a particularly hot and humid summer. At the time, my…

Read More

Shards of Glass

/
2 Mins

If you dare to go far enough, you might just get lucky and capture a moment as intimate as this one. Embedded within the forest of consciousness, imagine an instant of unadulterated acceptance between her and him. A woman and her monster. How did we get here? He has been…

Read More

Left Turn

/
1 Min

It was cold, but he couldn’t go home, not with this beast trailing his shadow. What was he going to say? This thing would not stop following him. He kept circling around the block, and it was already half past 7. She must have known something was wrong. Why didn’t…

Read More
1 2 3 4 5 8