In this episode, we travel to a depot on the edge of a continent and follow the journey of an X-ray technician, for whom it’s the edge of much more. There was a kind of dance the depot-keepers did, leaping aside as the crates glided past with slick momentum, then landing on the spiked toes […]
About visiting the library in the woods and finding something to read. Also about diagrams, birds on quests, and a strange fish. For all the times the babysitter has been there—all the Tuesdays, most of the Thursdays, the occasional Mondays and Fridays—it still looks more like the ghost of a door than an actual door, […]
This episode, we go to an archive, complete with various birds, diaries, and instructions for saddling your sea creature. She’d traveled by flatboat up a canal of stagnant water and was restless as they drifted toward the mooring. She kept trying to count the buildings and kept coming up with different numbers. She could have […]
A firefighter finds a new home in a new community. Along the way, there are fur-covered houses and six-legged whales. Static stung the firefighter’s fingertips. The doorframe was metal; everything else inside the house looked to be wood or stone. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something move. On a tiny shelf […]