THE GREATER REALITY AREA

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narrative paleontology

A collection of 4 issues

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

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

LIVING LANDSLIDES

According to legends written down in Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, the slide-rock bolter is a species of alpine whale that anchors itself high in the Rocky Mountains by its tail flukes, only to luge down the slope with an open maw, consuming everything in the path of the

AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS

Bestiary writers from Pliny on through DaVinci wrote of the legendary battles between elephants and dragons; two titanic beasts, evenly matched, their corpses found entangled throughout Africa and Asia. We can presume the surviving species of Proboscidea eventually won their war, for there are no true dragons left, and contemporary