Bedtime Stories for Nobody

A Story For You

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

Whose Dog Is This?

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

Where the Ocean Rains Into The Sky

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.

The Palace of Breath

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!

How We Lost The Moon

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.

Whale Fall

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.

The Ocean Visits Me While I’m Sleeping

I'm always happy to see her.

Good Night Starlight (Radio WSLP)

A nighttime transmission from the lonely highway.

Hallway Conversations

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

Good Things

An incomplete list.

Five Ways Things Can Slip Between

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

Animal Fictions

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

The Insect Civilizations That Arise After Humanity's Inevitable Collapse Pt. 2

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

The Insect Civilizations That Arise After Humanity's Inevitable Collapse Pt. 1

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

Aboard the International Space Station

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

Fill In The Gaps

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

Three People

Three short portraits of people I sort of know.

Five Hotels

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

Things You Can Make Out Of Glass

An incomplete list.

At Night, Sometimes, I Go to the Ocean

A story about internal and external spaces.

Four Places

Four places that might be nice to visit.

Ways to Break; Ways to Believe

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

Talk With Transformer

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

The Forest Where We Left You

It is a place I'm glad to know.

Selections from a Soundtrack

Feeling good, rust riders, cyber jockeys.

The Witch's Island

Excerpts from a a guided tour

36 Gardens

Gardens of many sizes and qualities.

The Brothers on the Landing

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

I Used to Follow The Lights to the Edge of the City

Love Song to the Crows Outside in Winter

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