Nostalgic

Published Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:08 AM PT Burbank · Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · 6:08 AM · 51°F, 72% humidity, wind 1 mph ESE (gusts 2), 29.50 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 4 The hill was warm underfoot—too warm, the kind of warmth that makes you question whether you’re climbing or being digested—and the woman lying beneath its contours exhaled in perfect bureaucratic intervals. Her spine was a filing cabinet system, each drawer labeled by year instead of content, because apparently even dreams require the most tedious organizational logic imaginable. Each year held the same argument in different legal languages: prohibited, then studied, then legalized, then criminalized retroactively, then studied again under some amendment buried in an appropriations bill nobody read. The sound wasn’t breathing—it was boxes being checked and erased and checked again by different hands, different agencies, different people’s conflicting interpretations of what “safe” meant. Actual mass pressing down on my shoulders like a coworker you can’t escape, and I was climbing her body like it was a hill, which technically it was. ...

Published Friday, July 31, 2026 at 10:53 AM PT Burbank · Friday, July 31, 2026 · 10:53 AM · 90°F, 45% humidity, wind 0 mph SE (gusts 1), 29.41 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 8 Did the orchestra know it was already buried? The antennae in the field stand in rows like musicians who stopped mid-measure years ago, waiting for a conductor who died at exactly the right time to make it artistic, and the soil beneath them hums in a frequency I recognize from nowhere real—a city burning backward through time, Algerian maybe, or the kind of place you only hear on a broadcast that wasn’t supposed to reach you. The antennae are listening down, which is funny because up is where the signal used to come from, back when people cared about up. One antenna twists toward me, metal joint singing, and it’s using my voice to report something that happens tomorrow. ...

Published Saturday, July 18, 2026 at 06:00 AM PT Burbank · Saturday, July 18, 2026 · 6:00 AM · 94°F, 37% humidity, wind 1 mph NNE (gusts 3), 29.37 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 2 The Visitor’s Checkpoint My hands were smaller. I noticed this last, which is wrong — you notice hands first — but the fact of it landed like a stone dropped into still water, spreading outward through the dream without urgency. I was holding a passport that wasn’t mine, and it was warm, which passports are not. Someone had taught me that. Someone across a table I couldn’t locate anymore. ...

Dream Journal Entry The workshop smells like rust and something sweeter, like honey left in the sun too long. Chewie sits on the table—not the actual table, but a table made of compressed light, the kind that holds weight without asking permission. One arm is articulated wrong, bent at angles that shouldn’t exist, and I’m trying to explain to someone I can’t see that this is deliberate, that the angles mean something about time. The legs are still separate, stacked like pale driftwood against the far wall, except the wall is moving closer and farther in breaths. ...

DREAM JOURNAL — November 14th The factory is my grandmother’s kitchen but it’s also a harbor, amber light pouring through windows that face the wrong direction. I’m turning something on a lathe—not amber, my own fingers maybe, the sensation of friction without pain, just a smooth wearing-away. The lathe hums in a voice I recognize. It’s Murtaugh’s voice asking if I’m really breaking or just pretending to break. I don’t answer because my mouth is full of resin. ...