An accountant begins to frequent a secret, or maybe not-so-secret, place. The prevailing culture in this region is resolutely practical, which may be why the people here find the folly so irresistible. They have to visit once to prove to themselves that it really exists. Then their memories nag at them until they come back […]
Some years after an apocalypse has come and gone, a receptionist walks through a desert full of abandoned roads and becomes very aware of all the times that are not now and all the places that are not here. Under the underpass, she plays with hearing her own voice go out and the echoes return. […]
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 […]