Topic
folklore
A collection of 12 issues
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
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
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,
THE TWELVE HOURS OF UNIVERSAL NIGHT
Leister Helmer, Wisconsinite inventor of the Universal Night Clock (patented 1954), rejected the standard observation of February 29th taking place every four years, denouncing it as a “depraved and uncreative use of man’s most hard-won resource.” In its place, he personally observed an undated set of twelve extra
THE MYRMECOLEON EFFECT REVISITED
ALLOCATION
Those who live out of suitcases learn to spend their evenings in bars. An endless tunnel of concourses, fuselages, trams, and front desks creates a dissociative environment where the realm of dreams provides more sure footing than any permanent address. There is no salvation from this state of mind in