Dreams, a commentary (No. 1)

Dreams, eh?  They’re just stories, right?  Stories your own brain tries to tell you while you aren’t paying attention.  They don’t really mean anything.  That’s what you’ve got to tell yourself.  Over and over, you’ve got to tell yourself that, that they don’t mean anything.  You have to.  Because if they did actually mean something.  If those stories your own mind was trying to tell you while you weren’t paying attention, if *those* stories meant anything, anything at all….

The End of the City of Lights

Augury of Miso en Place

They came first for Chef, who named his dishes by the wrong names.

They came for him in the night before the Feastday of Saint Martina of Rome, when they thought no one could be watching.  They interrupted his preparations and ignored his protestations.  Their passing left an orange stain in the air, a smear of light that did not dissipate.  

Where to Begin?

I watch the spiders running up and down my walls.  Their legs seeming the perfection of organic machination.  Their exoskeletons and compound eyes, marvels of engineering.  The sheer, pure purpose of their existence – to rid the world of *insects*. 

Taskforce on Tentacles and Teeth

Stories have entered general circulation, concerning one of the things that goes bump in the night.  Well, less a story, perhaps, than a description at this point, and a theory or two.  Too little is actually known for it to be a story, as yet.  Which is to say, when faced with a collection of facts, the average human wants very much to assign action and motivation, to create a story, to get a grip.  But that act of creation does not make a truth.  And we here want to discover the truth behind these things that go bump in the night.  

So.  The facts.

On the Other Side of the Night

Jul. 17

I have noticed of late that my dreams are becoming more and more lucid, imprinting with ever increasing clarity upon the more plastic portions of my memory.  I am therefore determined to record these recollections, in order to make an attempt at assigning sense to what are increasingly bizarre, and increasingly portentous, communiques to me from my subconscious.  What follows will be that record, along with some potentially pertinent notes concerning the preceding day, in case evidence of a causative link might thus be brought to light.

Bar, Bar, Bar

I am lonesome.  All have abandoned me: the Candleman, the Toothsome Man, Mrs. Malloy, the cats; even the diabolical Chef has been avoiding me.  All the irregular deities of my bleak, midnight existence. Even Mallory sent around a short note to the effect that he regrets his inability to leave his chambers for even a short visit.  Which I know to be false as that man has never regretted a single debauched act in his richly immoral life.