Cartography :: Excerpt 001
Ithica stood offcenter in a patch of grass their home had as a backyard. It was a perfectly square plot, with flowers dotting the edges. She had grown up with flowers, so, she never stopped to smell them. To look at them. She stood there though, that morning and stared them down.
She was only six.
“What [...]
Quiet Doorways and Other Things
Bedroom by miz shellygrrl
MAXIMILLIAN PRICE LIVES HERE.
a study of a boy through his bedroom.
I.
Against the wall, Max has built himself a shelving system. It is a strange, low thing built out of spare wood parts he found all over the city. Like a bird building a nest, he put it together with the soft knocks [...]
(Places We’ve Never Been) :: Differences
Kasey DeLauria didn’t like rooftops. They told him too much. Everything from up there was wide-eyed and theatrical-release lensed. There was no way to feel the heat of the city coming up through the asphalt, from the grates and the city streets.
It wasn’t where he belonged.
What he loved was deep down within the confines [...]
(Places We’ve Never Been) :: Classic Cities
Due to it being another late night, I’ve decided to dig a classic piece of Cityscape out of my archives. Tomorrow, I will attempt to post an updated version of the way I see the same city now.
{setting transmission intercepted}
[this is the year that’s unknown]
[this is the city that is falling apart]
[this is the boy [...]
(Places We’ve Never Been) :: 2852-9
skyscrapers by fxp
From way up high on the 52nd floor, a girl could peer down and see the city pulsating beneath her. It moved in two ways, from the center out and from the outside in. It beat, like a heart, in breaths and motions, but, it was too far down for her to hear [...]
