THE GREATER REALITY AREA

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A collection of 3 issues

A TOP-DOWN PERSPECTIVE

I heard tale, once, of a tribe who lived at the summit of a bottomless mountain. They had been a nomadic people, eons before; they knew this from the thousand and one names of their ancestors they chanted in shared memory, the songs and titles from the centuries of climbing

PIPING HOT SKY MUSHROOMS

When cultivated in darkness, enoki mushrooms spill outward into long, pale tendrils in a sprawl not unlike that of fireworks. At this stand, sponsored by the University Beneath St. Paul, they were being sold-tempura fried, then drenched in all manner of colorful sauces: red-orange calabrianero-chili buffalo, verdant

EAT ALL YOU CAN

The Florida Keys themselves were once alive. Their bedrock formed from the calcified remains of what was once a sprawling forest of coral, strangled of all color and complexity by the sudden onset of an Ice Age. Above this once-living stone is a slime congealed from centuries of rotting