The Moment Dots Become a Pattern I've been stuck on the last 20% of a story I'm writing about a haunted frequency, so I went to the museum to shake some ideas loose.
I Need to Make Mistakes The first thing I do with a new notebook is write something stupid and messy on the first page.
Red Shift They say evolution occurs most rapidly in body parts that attract lovers and frighten rivals.
Pictures from a Bad Dream This morning I fed a robot a few sentences from the novel I'm writing, and it generated some startlingly accurate pictures.
A Fascinating Little Ailment I sneeze whenever I glance at the sun, which I’ve always taken as proof I am a night owl.
Passage Maps of the Arctic give me vertigo. All that blank bright land feels like leaping off a rooftop.
Radioactivity Cut to commercial, and I hum along with a jingle for a machine that controls your brainwaves while you sleep.
Fires The Rockies appeared through the gloom, slow beasts moving across the continent at the speed of time.