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REALITY REVISED #2: LUCK OF THE DRAW
Against their better judgment, six men sat down to play Russian roulette, and by the end of their game, seven were alive.
"I've seen this happen before," the new player spoke. He was sprawled nude across their table, having just splattered into being with a loud
CROW'S FOOT
In the mid-20th century, humanity exhibited a strange habit of ceding even its leisure activities to machines. Following a prophecy by Alan Turing, chess-playing computers began proving their ability to defeat even professional human opponents. A number of apocalyptic scholars iterated on these designs, building increasingly competitive chess
REALITY REVISED #1: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ETHICAL CONSUMTION IN THE PRETA LOKA
Pac-Man is living language, a logomotive being. His body is a sigil built from くち, the Hiragana for “mouth;” as such, his flesh is code that executes his only impulse. He moves ceaselessly forward through hazy, phosphene labyrinths, oscillating between fleeing from the entities that occupy its corridors, and
EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT
"When I was about ten or so, I swallowed seventeen packets of sea monkeys, all at once. It turned out my immune system was missing an antibody or two, and I had an undiagnosed fistula, so the pleura between my organs turned into a whole sea monkey circus."
ON MALL DREAMS
Somewhere in the mind, or mind of minds, is a grand snarl of escalators, rectangular caves, and an inescapable dim glow, perhaps accompanied by faint, barely intelligible music. Everywhere malls exist, people dream of mallscapes, which, strangely, are remembered as if they are one singular mall, or “Mall World.” Three
THE WATER CLOCK PRINCE
TRILOBITE BLUES
In life, your pet trilobite never got to meet you.
The little oval spent quiet days scurrying about the seafloor, as its kind had always done for hundreds of millions of years. Sometimes it would curl up into a ball to protect itself from danger; other times, just because it
BURIED SKY LODGE
“I mean, I guess it’s been like ten years.” Derrick was filling maraschino cherries with cream cheese for some godawful dessert cocktail. “Sure, why not, I’ll tell you about the weird ski lodge.
"There was a group of us who lived out in Durango who got paid
DEAD HAND
After a tornado struck Cincinnati in 1974, Sears floor manager Joe Fishbourne attempted to call his ex-wife from a downtown payphone with the excuse of checking whether or not she was okay. When he opened the attached phonebook, however, his attention was diverted to the unusual name “Philistine Causeway,