-12- As Happy as a Pea -13- Bards of the Ocean -14- Ara’s Secret

-12- As Happy as a Pea The ride is dark and slow, like we’re moving through space but can’t control our movements. Like we’re floating through water, the dark water of the oceans like what we passed through on the way here. I get motion sick real easy, so it’s the sort of ride that […]

-9- Everything’s Fine -10- Our Terrifying Thoughts -11- Meeting Ara

-9- Everything’s Fine The streets of Sealandia aren’t anything like the streets of Earth3. I don’t know how I forgot what happened between the tubes and hotel room, including a long elevator ride up to the Seahorse Floor, which makes me think my room should have a giant seahorse instead of a humpback whale. The […]

-6- Listen to the Whales -7- The Songs of Sealandia -8- Awake in a Room with a Giant Stuffed Whale

-6- Listen to the Whales The vampire thing plays in my head as everyone stands in line to leave the ship. I’ve seen the show before, or maybe I’ve heard of it. A reverse hostage idea about a vampire captured by love. I’ve never paid it much attention, even though Milinda and Sophie are swill […]

A Lithe Frame — I Can Hear You

-4- A Lithe Frame I eventually fall asleep. I don’t know when, but I must be asleep since I’m not on the ship anymore. Maybe I’m still underwater, if you can be underwater in a dream, but it’s not the sort of underwater where you can’t breathe. More like when they give you those masks […]

Sinking, and More Sinking

-2- Sinking I pull away from Kortena, switch off the network, its adds and programs, all the things it wants me to see and do and experience. I don’t want pills. Well, I do, but not those pills, and I’m not even sure what Kortena’s trying to tell me. I could use the dictionary for […]