Conspiracy
Folk Religion
Interstate Scene 1: Maybe you’ve heard the stories, the baroque theories on late-night radio or the soliloquies of sunburnt men who mutter at the traffic.
Swerve
Perhaps the best work scrambles genre and rides strange lines that might swerve at any moment.
Demon
Today’s headlines featured phrases about “demon sperm” and “the umbrella man” because we’ve slipped into a psychedelic hell.
Detach
I remember speeding across a blank Oklahoma plain dotted with pump jacks and cattle pens.
Radioland
During commercial breaks, I sang along to radio jingles for machines that control your brainwaves while you sleep.
Solstice
People are edgy, their dreams infected with anxiety if they can sleep at all.
Paranoia
Men with amplifiers delivered gnostic interpretations of the facial expressions of various health officials.
Conspiracy
Each headline is more disorienting than the last, and these pandemic days are breeding baroque conspiracies.