Inspired by a local group of scribes — 365 days, 366 in a leap year. An entire chapter of your life, segmented down to four seasons. Winter starts the crawl, a single mitten in the snow. A sled across the car park sludge. A dinner with a stranger. The scraper on a frosty car windshield cracks the ice. …

Written in Stone (typed in microsoft word) — Push button. His dusted, dated desktop Dell chugged into gear as if governed by churning teams of cogs. Force slow legs stand, shimmy into kitchen. He always avoided the creaking floorboard, but — as his health began to reflect his age — he couldn’t help the strained sinew in his…

An Explanation (let me take you by the hand) — The ACME Company was everything to everyone around it. As fundamental as water to our survival, there were utterly no revolutionaries against the peculiar establishment. …

Comments from The Immaculate Lab on the nature of rare elemental discoveries. — This is part of a spinoff, based on a larger work; A Decent Land. For more, see this full list, or start from the very beginning! 10. Hugon Nightclubs in the richest districts fill the sky with vivid lights, dancing ‘pon the films of skin that shelter us from space. …

An Introduction (welcome to the wonderful world of entertainment) — Petey stood perspiring, rubbing his porky and ill-defined pinkies together in angst, fearful but energised. Let’s proceed to paint this picture with all the full wonder and respect it commands, for the room in which Petey shook — not entirely out of disturbance, but more anticipation — was so unlike…

A poem about orchids, and their evolutionary soulmates. — Angraecum sesquipedale, the Latin name for Darwin’s orchid, symbolises romance in the natural world, beyond us. We think of love — real lust and adoration — as a purely human institution, but that isn’t true. Even evolution itself was set in motion by flirting acids, bumping up against each other…

Comments from The Immaculate Lab on the nature of rare elemental discoveries. — This is part of a spinoff, based on a larger work; A Decent Land. For more, see this full list, or start from the very beginning! 06. Chel Alternative Propulsions — the ark responsible for portals and wormholes — also patented String; the strangest substance in the universe. …

An introductory pamphlet from the Lords of the Eye, addressed to the youth. — We see The Eye in our dreams, before its existence is even revealed to us. And so, we rest assured — in faith — by our own experience. Its pupil crimson, like our royal family’s castle (no coincidence), The Eye is ever locked in observation. …