Ink and Annihilation (III/IV)
[The Island of the Centipede – Chapter Four] — Flying carpets, once abandoned, often yearn for the annihilation of the universe. They don’t fly very well after a while. They get tears in them and...
View ArticleThis Blasphemous Thing (I/V)
[The Island of the Centipede – Chapter Five] — Continuing from The Uncanny Valley, The Pirate, The Heaps, and The Skandhas of Head Island. — “Right effort,” says the dread pirate Tara. “Haaa!” shout...
View ArticleTransience (II/V)
[The Island of the Centipede – Chapter Five] — “Everything is transient,” says Tara. She is sitting on the deck of her ship. She is meditating. She is holding the ship still while the world moves...
View ArticleMax is Dead (2 of 5)
[The Island of the Centipede – Chapter Five] — The horizon divides the sea from the sky. In Sid’s tactical judgment, this is the world’s mistake. He skates a long chain-blade of him along its length...
View ArticleAnatman (I/VII)
Anatman’s the god of a godless world. He’s stood against the Devil himself and said, “You don’t exist.” (And oh! how the Devil laughed; but that’s a story for another time.) He’s stood against the...
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