Dashboard
“Mr. Ehrenfeld. There will come a point when you can no longer U-turn. When you’ve gone so far south, have become so mired in Everglade swampland or tangled up in some other such feature of the landscape, that reversing is impossible.”
-THE DASHBOARD OF YOUR SEMI-AUTONOMOUS 2032 MERCEDES-BENZ
Poly-morphic Monogamy
“I’ve seen the aftermath of electrocution climaxes, flesh-eating squid ink orgasms, a brain-damaging near-asphyxiation from skunk spray (ironically during post-coital cuddling, when someone got a little too relaxed).”
-POLY-MORPHIC MONOGAMY
1 Corinthians 13 (love as force)
“And now these three remain:
Gravitational waves, cosmic microwave background, and love.
But the greatest is love.”
-FOUR ALIEN ANALOGUES OF 1 CORINTHIANS 13
1 Corinthians 13 (Tadpole)
“When I was a tadpole I talked like a tadpole. I thought like a tadpole. I reasoned like a tadpole.”
-FOUR ALIEN ANALOGUES OF 1 CORINTHIANS 13
MBA (Marketing)
“Smile. Wider. More often. Raw bone striking against dark skin, whitening strips perform as advertised, though they eat through to the nerve. Cook your hair, then teach it to glow, the gloss above the damage.”
-HOW TO APPLY YOUR MBA IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Inner Space (2)
“He looks into eyes so like the ones he grieves that he can catalogue every difference.”
-INNER SPACE
Tilted Toward the Light (Both)
“But they resembled children before, in their aimless enjoyment of activity. Now they resemble adults, in their desperation for activity to mean.”
-TILTED TOWARD THE LIGHT
Tilted Toward the Light (Jack)
“He suddenly regretted not cremating the body. He regretted interring it in a soft wooden casket of his own making, rather than concrete, or metal, or anything that resembled more of a cage, less of an incubator. As he left he whispered to himself that his problems were buried. That bodies cannot be sown.”
-TILTED TOWARD THE LIGHT
Tilted Toward the Light (Amber)
“And right now that sense of magic feels closer than ever, an unquantifiable energy flirting with the edges of her senses, the everyday forming the silhouette of the spiritual.”
-TILTED TOWARD THE LIGHT
The Sower
“Outer fringe of the jungle. A half-dozen Brazilian farmers emerge from the trees, machetes and chainsaws in hand, heads flopping from broken necks, vine nooses snaking back into the foliage like umbilici tethered to who knows what floral nexus, what fruiting body birthed them.”
-The Sower: A Trailer
Inner Space
“And this all feels like a dream. His dream. He is a dreamer awakened to the fact that he is dreaming, only to realize he must go on dreaming, or perish.”
-INNER SPACE