One moment he was just doing his job, his own small part for greater humanity and trying not use up his third and final life.  Then, the universe slipped. Call it a gear-tooth, or two, if it helps you understand shifts deep enough to lose him in the slippery nether between stable probabilities and so a violent fracture grew up and down reality. Imperceptibly to the greater cosmos, a small blister, or bridge, formed exotic links across contextual folds of reality.  It opened,... more

T H E   S W A R M …      Hello again, son! I sure miss your lumpy grin and glad to get word everyone is safe through these troubles. Well… so much has happened since your hero last rode into town I’m not sure where to start. Back when everything stopped working, like a salmon, I swam upstream to my hometown. I haven’t been back for a while and a strong nostalgia for the rain and moss seemed reasonable, at... more

N I M …      He woke from dreams of flying. Free fall does that. Soaring dreams are mythic stuff, you feel like Superman. It started simple, vivid rich loamy soil, of foraging and goofing, lazing into a bright morning. Discovering a jeweled puzzle-box, beget jungle-hunt through a waterlogged ruins and finally a fire-quest leading to this dry windswept pinnacle of sunlit rock baking under the setting sun. Layered sandstone cliffs over a... more

V I S I T O R …      Set the scene with a universe filled with more night than day. Murky velvet curtains mark human boundaries under sullen stars bathing our stage in languid light. Stumbling from the dim dark, barely awake and fumbling, mortals makes ignorance an arena for fools in a world half asleep…Space curls as time allows. One endless moment finally breaks. Adrift, reefs of purple energy discharge in knots against a black sea strewn with... more