Serial Newsletter
I’ve started sending out fiction through a monthly email newsletter, Notes from an Imaginary Place. Each installment will also be available as a podcast.
The first 26 installments will be an architectural alphabet, from Archive to Ziggurat (although not necessarily in that order…). Each one is meant to put you in another, fairly fantastical, place for 15 minutes or so of reading or listening time. You’ll meet manatee jockeys, hairdressers for the dead, office workers who moonlight producing somewhat mystical yams, and more.
Click below to sign up for the emails. I’ll include podcast links in each email (and you should also be able to find/subscribe to the podcast directly via your favorite podcast app or service).
Look further below for an archive of all the installments so far.
Taking a break at the midpoint of the main Notes from an Imaginary Place sequence, here’s one of my first published stories. Detail from a Painting by Hieronymus Bosch Read the newsletter installment. Hear the podcast.
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You grew up in a capsule like these–playing, learning. Now, all these years later, you’ve come back. Each capsule was a cozy, safe space for a child and once a child had chosen a capsule, it became their place, their refuge, and the door would iris open at only their touch. Some years later, when […]
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A poem. A glass box. A voice coach. A heist. X is for Xystus. Why the party was being held in this particular garden mystified the voice coach. The space was cluttered with an abundance of topiary, follies, ponds both reflecting and lily, smaller trellised walkways that intersected the main xystus, three-level gazebos, colonnades in […]
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Up in the branches of mile-high trees, a cartographer maps the routes between greenhouses. For the last great mapping exercise, a cartography team of twenty had swarmed through the treetops from greenhouse to greenhouse. But that had involved sketching everything by hand, followed by hours upon hours of laborious copying and compiling. She, however, has […]
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In a place where the dead are never really gone, a hairdresser carries out his complicated profession on the deceased. Because just as the dead have to wear their specialized robes, flowing in some places and wrapped tight in others, their hair must be styled in the distinctive styles of the deceased. It takes cutting […]
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