November 22nd

Time span and swam, kicked and tripped over her then stopped. When it started again she was in a library.

Bucket, Spade, Monster – A Drabble

The first time I saw the monster, he’d taken the face of my dad and was burying my mother in the sand.

Observations on how people respond to terrible news, based on internet comment threads

How they respond when it affects someone they perceive as being like them

I can’t believe this,
I won’t believe this.

Endless Regress: a haiku

Fern leaves and pine cones,
Sunflower seeds coil and loop,
In endless regress.

Hunter S Thompson said

Hunter S Thompson said “we were told to buy American”,
Hunter S Thompson said “the sixties were a lie”.
He told us if we walked to the high point in Nevada and looked out into the distance
We could see the point where the water rose high.

The Script – an elevator pitch

Our time is the not too distant future. The place is what was once called the United States of America.

The inevitable increase in the early 21st century wealth gap has seen all land and property consolidated in the hands of a few ultra-wealthy people. The poor eek out a living as characters in the living fantasy worlds of their employers, not just farming and serving for them but acting out ongoing story lines 24 hours a day.