Topic
forteana
A collection of 7 issues
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
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
KLAXON AND CHRYON
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
THE MYRMECOLEON EFFECT REVISITED
LONG, LEAN, HUNGRY ONES
In 1245, Pope Innocent IV composed a letter to Güyük Khan, requesting that the Mongols cease attacking Christian lands in Eastern Europe. This letter was carried all the way from Lyon to Karakorum, where it was read to the Khagan himself in his imperial court:
“You ought not accordingly take