Activity

With my chopsticks I lifted and dipped the third and final baby octopus and tried to think as I chewed of a synonym for “tender.” Imitative desire for my virtual novel was going to fund artificial insemination and its associated costs. My actual novel everyone would thrash. After my agent’s percent…

She looked like a chthonic deity of vengeance

a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased

a proprioceptive flicker in advance of the communal body

Headaches, disordered speech, weakness, visual disturbances, nausea, numbness, paralysis. Prosopagnosia, pareidolia. The softening sky reflected in the water. Silver but appearing rose gold in that light. The momentary sense of having traveled back in time.