Once a year, during the Sturgeon Moon, a house appears off Seven Mile Line Road in the heart of Chickasee County. Native grasses surround it, thick and tall, protecting the house and its sprawling kitchen garden from view. The being who lives inside the house calls herself Helga Tillinger when she manifests here. The body […]
Sapphire Bay ResortFour-star hotel1,643 reviews#3/563 hotels in Sapphire IslandBoutiqueHotel review: Two stars DisappointingThey advertised as a bespoke luxury hotel to get away from the chaos of the cities, but the nighttime turn-down experience was unsettling. The towels they folded were SWANS! Can you imagine how disappointing this was to my toddler? In Fiji last summer, they […]
Junius calls them ambulatory skeletons, the vacant ten thousand that wander Salisbury’s gaunt stockade. Union prisoners of war, Southern Unionists, Confederate deserters, a few ragtag Northern newspapermen like us. The sickest double at the waist in dysentery’s moist embrace; soon we’ll be dragging their corpses to the dead house and the two o’clock wagon carting […]
On Ascension’s Eve, 88 takes 99 to meet the makers. They rent two drones for the occasion, exchanging digital paradise for Base Reality, the drab and inflexible world that is unremarkable – except for the fact it birthed all others, plus the makers themselves.88 has made this pilgrimage before, but it’s 99’s first experience with […]
I’d like an upgrade. Not to first class. Not to the travelers’ lounge. Not to the penthouse or even the double suite with park views. No, I’d like to upgrade my travel to a *~voyage~*. “Travel” sounds simple, bougie, possibly intrusive. But to go on a voyage sounds like you’re having an experience that will […]