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My Son, Curious Eyes Gleaming

My son, curious eyes gleaming: Thou see not an ending / Unending night and the ice cave: farewell to bones and thorns and scorn

A poem categorized In:
  • Demersal Specimens
  • Porphyrous Treelimb

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Bestirred Anthony

One boy’s summer day on the lake, and a vision, a need for the empty void below.

Burning orange sun hazes indistinct and wavy over a suburban strip mall parking lot.

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Never Normal

This is a psychotic, inverted sun circling the parking lot with petty revenge on its mind.

The head of a pig, with a circular hole in the forehead, floating on a green field of flowers.

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Dream of the Pig’s Head

The quagmire of the subconscious is flooded nightly by the fresh and fertilizing blood of day’s carcass.

A face where only the eyes and mouth are visible. The eyes are red and the mouth's jagged teeth seem fused with the center of a three-petaled purple flower.

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The Violet Man

Of The Violet Man, little is said and even less is seen.

An entry categorized In:
  • Bestiary

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The Facility

It was sooty, and unmedical, / like the aftermath of coffin-fires, / like the heating of rusting wrought-iron

A poem categorized In:
  • Microscopic Siege
A sunrise over a pastoral landscape, rendered in intense rainbow hues that shift slowly across the horizon.

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Late Night Tales

The long-accepted cycle of sun and moon has been evicted, usurped by manufactured cycles.

Person wearing robes and a wide-brimmed hat gazing into the middle-distance.

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Hildegaard, Mycologist

Hackers, artists, spiritualists, and those interested in accelerated evolution all seek out Hildegaard for their unique offering of “Analog Augmented Reality” experiences.

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An Immaculate Mitosis

Whence distinction, whence disparity: the first unto the second, unto the multitude.

A poem categorized In:
  • Porphyrous Treelimb

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The River

The sky is grime and haze lit by a half open red eye, / crisscrossed by cables swaying from skyscrapers and / yellow towers of scaffold.

A poem categorized In:
  • The Aquifer
  • Microscopic Siege
A phantom Jack-O'Lantern looms of above a stone well at twilight on a field.

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Pumpkinhead

He had places to be, this Halloween, but something else called to him from outside the walls of the civilized.

Chrome-textured blob with a mouth and eyes slowly rolling off a ledge.

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Slumbering Ooze

These gel-like creatures are sheathed in a glimmering holographic surface which projects colorful, writhing images.

An entry categorized In:
  • Bestiary
A man sitting staring into bonfire with a ghostly jellyfish floating above him.

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Mollusk Worship

Dreams of a forgotten mythology, passed from soul to soul in furtive whispers.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Demersal Specimens
A metallic cyber-face

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Encrypted Margaret

Can one ever trust what one sees only through a computer screen?

A red, ghostly hound lurks above an idling car with its headlights on in the dark woods.

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The Black Hound

It wasn’t until later, much later, that I understood all those hours I spent in the woods were imprinting themselves on me, that the spooky warmth I felt was a shard of a feeling much older and larger than a single person.

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Canis

The dogs of the sky.

A poem categorized In:
  • Esoteric Constellations

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Apostle of the Virtual

The world beyond the real is it own form of truth, and this truth attracts its own adherents, fervent and mysterious.

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The Insect

A fly circles her finger, though it is not her finger.

A poem categorized In:
  • Entomology Wing
A sketch of a many-eyed whale with an orb embedded in its head and a tale made of jutting protrusions of crystal.

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The Beacon

What lies beneath the waves? A shadow crystalline.

A poem categorized In:
  • Bestiary
Pastel cylinder with a human mouth licking its lips seductively, slowly changing color.

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In My Secret Place

The rain sighs across the metal roof, and the smell of smoke sneaks into my hiding place. Were those footsteps?

Jittery, staticky, skeleton-scepter being held by a hand, as in a medieval, illuminated text.

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Rattle These Old Bones

They’ve become slick, like marble carvings with a thin layer of dew, and something green like algae.

Squidlike mushroom creature with a cybernetically enhanced head-mantle and suckered tentacles instead of mycelia.

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Mezzo-Nanite

Diminutive adherents of The Chorus

A fragment categorized In:
  • Bestiary
A young girl in an immaculately detail lace dress stands atop the head of a giant swan on a moonlit lake, offering a golden peach to an even more massive swan whose eyes seem to pour downwards like rivers.

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Swan & The Swan

A young girl finds her name.

An entry categorized In:
  • Oneirophrenia
Jittery, staticky, mirror-image of a swarm of venus flytrap plants.

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Loveletter

The internet really isn’t what it used to be.

Graphite sketch of a polka-dotted frog-turtle with a folded beetlelike wings and a concave skull, from which emerges a flowerbud-like frond.

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Hungry Stones

A new kind of cyber-kappa

A fragment categorized In:
  • Bestiary

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An Atrophied Shrine

Study on a forgotten place, a place of once-living faith.

A fragment categorized In:
  • The Archaean Past

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Fragments on the Future of Peaches

Fortune-telling by means of the peach, in whose husk many futures are laid like bodies in a mausoleum

An entry categorized In:
  • The Peach Saga
Jittery, raw, fleshless, sharp-toothed hound-like creature with glowing eyes staring directly into the frame, on an oscillating background that cycles through rainbow colors that match its eyes.

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Eye See You

It sees the true me, the one I can’t remember.

Mirrored, jittery, static-and-scanline filled, garish-colored landscape. Perhaps looking at a lake through treebranches.

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Hold Me Now

Did I do this to myself? No, no. It wasn’t me.

Graphite sketch of a sad-eyed dog's head, with wavy fractal patterns, teeth, and lithic shapes within its skin.

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Howl

A boy, his car, and a dog.

Graphite sketch of a small, pudgy bird with closed eyes and a hooked beak in a nest with some kind of quasi-gelatinous structure looming over it.

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Nest

Branching, veined, quilling

A fragment categorized In:
  • Bestiary

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Emanations of Memory

Incomplete translation of a file recovered from a charred bronze hard drive.

A misty arm extends from a dark bathtub in which a laughing, terrible face floats beneath a swarm of flies.

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Drain Presence

An empty circle closes, a final awakening, a first awakening.

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About Hollow Places

It finds its way to hollow spaces. Empty vessels, old pipes…

A fragment categorized In:
  • The Aquifer
A close-up, dingy face with a mouth inside of its mouth, one laughing, one with teeth clenched.

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Sound of a Voice

The child experiences a seeming, a kinesthetic hallucination, a dream-command, of Hollow.

Black-and-white ovoid inkblot creature with smiling eyes and an extremely toothy mouth within an identical mouth. Two gloved hands appear to welcome you.

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The Hollower

If you should see a hollower, don’t be a wallower

A fragment categorized In:
  • Bestiary

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Krill Mother

Fecund lurker in cold, deep waters.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Bestiary
A magenta bat whose lower half becomes an octopus fused with a human face and hands surrounded by a triangular insignia of eyes and flowers.

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Bound

Quiet and sound, a harmony of opposites, the warp and weft of our bonds to the known, and to the unknown.

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The Song

The song began as a merely a different shape of quiet, but the city heard.

A twisting creature with an almost-wooden texture to its skin, wrapping itself with many elongated limbs, whose head resembles a moon, with hairlike tendrils extending outward as though flowing in the wind, or in water.

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The Chorus

Architect of trillions of mycelial plots, a coiled organic mirror, speaker of the Hushed Algorithm.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Bestiary
  • Industry of Obsolescence
Stylized cartoon peach with a heavily made-up humanoid face

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On the Origin of Peaches

Peaches as viral social phenomenon: tracing the causes.

An entry categorized In:
  • The Peach Saga
Lavender tree-shape with bulbous, organlike protrusions and glowing, floating orbs

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Nocturne

The extruded coil takes its seat upon the reddened coral

A poem categorized In:
  • The Archaean Past
Dark peach tree amid strange fronds bearing a single glowing fruit with a human face made of bark, sleeping

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Dream of a Peach Seed

Though Ignoble Uak drank the drop, felt it flow through fractal interior aqueducts of absorption, the drop ultimately consumed them.

An entry categorized In:
  • The Peach Saga
A small fish leaping from a viscous, inky cloud in the sea towards lighter waters with a hazy glow and other fish swimming.

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The Fish’s Night

But even in the deepest abyss where daylight has never shone, there is a kind of night, spoken of in aquatic whispers and burbles of dread and danger.

An entry categorized In:
  • The Archaean Past
  • The Aquifer

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The Old Man and The Child

Dialog unearthed beneath a grid of asymmetric basalt prisms.

An entry categorized In:
  • The Archaean Past
Glitch Witch

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The Glitch Witch

In a corrupted hut twined-around with enciphered snakes and thatched with feathers of deleted birds lives she who speaks in riddles with no answers.

An entry categorized In:
  • Bestiary

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Erroneus Heart

Strange operations at the core of the machine-brain interface.

A character sheet from an imaginary role playing game depicting the statistics and equipment of a young elfin girl wearing a variety of cephalopod themed clothing.

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Titania Polestar

IceQuest hours logged: thirty eight. Experience to next level: one thousand four hundred and seven.

The Uplink Terminal

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The Uplink Terminal

Technology evolves faster than nature. It did not take long for cellular towers to shed their vestigial, chlorophyll-bereft leaves for smooth protrusions coated with pentagonal solar micropanels.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Industry of Obsolescence
Incubation

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Incubation

“Mom says it’s a dreaming spot. That it means I’ll always have good dreams.”

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The Salp Migration

Tales told by a white-winged bird to an egg that will never hatch.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Demersal Specimens

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Discordant Geometries

Tales told by a white-winged bird to an egg that will never hatch.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Esoteric Constellations
A suburban house at night, windows glowing brightly with primary colors that cycle through the full spectrum.

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Cul-de-Sick

Silas often finds himself smoking at dusk on the outskirts of the deserted baseball diamond.

Sketch of a sitting creature that is part tree, part acorn, part sprout, yet with the legs of a humanoid.

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The Brownie

A strangeness of wood and leaf, born in an unknown realm and now lost.

An entry categorized In:
  • Bestiary

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The Eater of Thumbs

Found inscribed on a coral chip in the language of krill.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Bestiary

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Hooked Beak

Found inscribed on a coral chip in the language of krill.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Industry of Obsolescence
Pixellated creature, thin cylindrical body covered with water-slick hair, rises from a pale lake.

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My Life Story

What does Silas listen to in the artificial night of his bedroom?

A playlist categorized In:
  • Oneirophrenia
Well Dweller

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What Dwells in the Well

It is said that a coin thrown into a well is a wish granted. But no one says by whom, or to what end.

An entry categorized In:
  • Bestiary
  • The Aquifer

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The Drifting City

Everyone knows why the city left, but where it chose to go remains a mystery.

A fragment categorized In:
  • The Archaean Past

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Bifurcation

The future of display technology is that of the reflecting pool.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Industry of Obsolescence
A cute, large-eyed fleshy humanoid robot.

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Puyo: Friendly Automaton

On the emergence of a strange and sensational toy companion.

A fragment categorized In:
  • Industry of Obsolescence
Sketch of a woman smoking a cigarette on an elaborate bed.

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Hortencia Fragments

Concerning an encounter at night

A fragment categorized In:
  • A Kind of Fugue
Kali

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Metamorphoses

Her eyes see through her bed. The magenta light in the room blossoms into the thousand million colors of data. She stands up and sky bends, the tide red-as-blood recedes.

A story categorized In:
  • Bitwise Disjunctions
Whale

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Darkness

A boy and his robot receive a signal from the darkness of the antarctic winter and decide to investigate.

A story categorized In:
  • Industry of Obsolescence
  • Demersal Specimens
The Dragon

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Secrets

The girl with unquiet eyes guards her secrets well. She is an excellent violinist, but is dissatisfied with her music for a host of unusual reasons.

A story categorized In:
  • Pharmacopoeia
  • A Kind of Fugue