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forteana
A collection of 9 issues
PLACES TO BE
There are zones within Wyoming’s midsection where the sky is too slippery for satellites to hold steady, and even the most detailed surveyors made errors which were copied from one cartographer to another. While driving across those moonscapes of green and gold, there are no other cars to pass,
THE KAMCHATKAN LIVING CAULDRON
The “living cauldron” is a cryptid first described in the journals of seventeenth century Russian expeditioners to the Kamchatkan peninsula. One such Cossack explorer described a disintegrating reindeer corpse in what appeared to be a hot spring, posed as if it died struggling to escape, reeking terribly of rot and
FOR NO EYES ONLY
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