CIDARIS: EFFECTS SUMMARY

Her nose had been broken once, and perfectly. By everyone’s measure, Cidaris Musz is the most beautiful creature to matriculate Caliyuga University since its conception, buried deep in our colonial past. Her looks may be characterized in many ways but never accurately or consistently described by anyone. She looks different to every camera. The problem of…

QUARANTINE ISLAND

PART ONE: QUARANTINE ISLAND “You ain’t going anywhere, today. We ain’t.” “Why’s that?” “There’s no flights going to New York.” “Newark, then?” “Nix, man. No place. No where. No York, No Newark. No Wark. No… Body.” I shifted to the other desk. “What about you?” Still no. I ventured over to HeronAir. “You guys going?”…

SELF-INFLICTED WORLD

Three new moon lets and everybody apprehensive and talking, sparking conversations with perfect strangers, the intimacy of the truly novel. The weather is a peculiar hot. The sun presses on you and it's like the air is boiling into existence, transitioning from a hot organic broth into a gas still too hot to be actually…

OFF-FREQUENCY

910 kHz He had the SUV’s abnormally sensitive AM radio tuned to a frequency well between the powerful nearby and clear channel stations.   He sat with a fine view of a mid-January sunset over Satchyayuga County, waiting for his wife to emerge from her yoga class. It was the time of day when the distant stations…