Bedtime Stories for Nobody

This is a story about being a person, and then continuing to be a person, for as long as it takes.

What is this dust-colored, sideways grinning dog doing out here in the parking lot?

I wanted to tell you something about the place where the storm whips up the waves so strongly that the boundary between them is uncertain, and about the one-eyed crab who clicks up and down the beach, and about castles, sometimes.

Text for the new brochure, a lot of places have those at the front desk so people can get to know a little about the place, right? We should have one of those at the Palace of Breath!

Ok, everyone, I know we're all upset and looking to POINT FINGERS but before you start calling us up you should listen to this and see if it answers some of your questions.

A story about how we see ourselves, and eachother, assuming that we are a patch of ocean or a different patch of ocean or one of many creatures living in what used to be a whale.

I'm always happy to see her.

A nighttime transmission from the lonely highway.

A story about people and things talking to each other in hallways. Inspired by Bill Irwin's "On Beckett."

An incomplete list.

1. like a dime between subway rails 2. like time lost 3. like a knife in the skin 4. like a seedling out of a seed 5. like truth

None of this, as far as I know, is true.

Please take any of this that helps you, and ignore the rest.

Don't worry about it, they're going to be rad

A small story about looking at things from different perspectives, in the closing days of one's time aboard the International Space Station.

The result of an experiment. 45 of these words were written by Sydney Vogl.

Three short portraits of people I sort of know.

Written for 826 Valencia's Donuts and Dialogues series, on the theme of "a brighter tomorrow."

An incomplete list.

A story about internal and external spaces.

Four places that might be nice to visit.

A story about here, and there, and ways things might break, and the things we might believe.

A collaboration with the neural network Talk To Transformer by Adam King.

It is a place I'm glad to know.

Feeling good, rust riders, cyber jockeys.

Excerpts from a a guided tour

Gardens of many sizes and qualities.

This one's kind of spooky, but has a lot of commentary from the Guffin.

Some thoughts, several of them about birds and the sun.

Some time spent thinking about flight.

What sedimentary rock does on its days off.

Selections from Werner's Nomenclature of Colors

A story about some people spending time together.

I liked Myst.

Oh my gosh, you're so excited!

A portrait.

A description of delights, a creamy compendium.

For the curious and the uncomprehending

A story about public transit, and public transit riders.

This is the result of an experiment where every night for a month I wrote three sentences about that night's teeth-brushing.

A full-cast recording of Let The Lillies Consider, a Quiet, Please story originally recorded in 1948.   The cast: James and Announcer - Kai Stewart Policeman - Erik Ostrom Gretchen - Kate Schmidt Lillies - Shea Roberts, Jeff Gyllen, Marina Yoder, Colleen Riley, Miranda Hoeferson   Quiet, Please was written and originally directed by Wyllis Cooper.  Learn more about Quiet, Please at http://www.quietplease.org/, or listen at https://archive.org/details/Quiet_Please/

A story about the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California.

It's only the stranger again, drifting through town.

Three stories, or four stories, or one story, or more than that.

Abridged.

Instead of one small story, four very small stories.  Some of the windows are metaphorical.

Not a survey of relative anatomy, but maybe a case study.