reflection on a pirate reality

i spent a month as a pirate ship operator. february-april, working on the spring holidays, about 4 weeks all told. on my internet with friends i call this pirate reality. start at 945. end at 445. most days. or 1045. some days. that’s between 6-7 hours. in march i had maybe 2 shifts. i had no […]

etherbridge rock

stick in the mud writing names of the people who had been invented for this trip. Otherwise Pillar and Horsestead Thermedgenise. friends who never existed. she leans down to the dirt to whisper a secret. how heavy is her heart here on etherbridge rock. lighter now maybe. lighter now. the blade is around four inches […]

there’s a killer on the moon

you are sitting in the dentist’s chair. they are drilling a hole into your tooth. fingers in your mouth and the sensation reminds you of something. you are sitting in a chair beside your counsellor at school. you are nervous. you are telling them about what you like to do and about how there’s a […]

necroplasma (catch the sweating man)

catch the sweating man if you can. he’s shed his clothes in the halls of the ship. the boiler suit. the underwear. both stained with blood and the green bile. the things that he did before you began to see, patterned marble. a panel is split and the wires pulled out in the direction of […]

the killer bug game

there’s a killer bug waiting in a bin on the street. it’s like 2ft x 2ft x 1ft in its current orientation, kind of vertically sideways. in one of the other bins on the street is a hundred coins of gold. and in another one, another hundred gold coins. the question is. which one is […]

they made a heart out of a dog

they did it FINALLY A DOG made HEART the executive of the company was losing their mind. why do it? because it was finally to be done… of course. I mean come on guys, it’s the thing. The thing to do. The thing to do is basically fall a long way to the bottom of […]

ECHO (2017): so many of me that it’s weightless

so many of me that it’s weightless and awful to go deeper and only more and more of me palaces carved out of billions of years of ice formation and only me and gold leaf the generator that powers 30 kilometre trips, only powers up by manual cranking. and i fall asleep from exhaustion each […]

Down In Bermuda (2019): The Cozy Erasure of an Entire Territory

It should go without saying that any place and its people have place in the myriad histories of the world to be told, and an obvious important continuing condition in the life of everyone living there, and with ties there today. Bermuda, for instance is one such phenomenon. It is currently a British Overseas Territory. […]

We’re sorry for Tomb Raider, thank you for buying.

Start up Tomb Raider I-III Remastered (2024, Aspyr, pub. Crystal Dynamics, Embracer) and you’re met with a curious message. “The games in this collection contain offensive depictions of people and cultures rooted in racial and et hnic prejudices. These stereotypes are deeply harmful, inexcusable, and do not align with our values at Crystal Dynamics. Rather […]

Liliguide Pollin and The Arc

Liliguide Pollin rolls around in the small chamber. There’s a noise and it’s activating the red signal. That means leaving the chamber. Leave the chamber and find yourself in oil corridor five West Barker. The chamber is deep down in the Bowel. The Bowel is a… It… Dominates. The Bowel is a part of this […]