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Thursday, December 30, 2021

The Nanochronicles: 4

reports from the bloodHost

 

                                                                                                                 art by Charles Carter

 
  
      Our self remain in the process of analyzing every aspect of the harmonic spectrum emanating from this solar system cut loose from its brood cluster. The first iteration of chaos mechanics identified has its foundation in the greater expanse of this fluctuating firmament. Statistical analysis indicates it's altogether common in the galaxy for young stars to go rogue. Conditions become ripe for the stabilization of protoplasmic ion discharges resulting in the abiogenesis of material forms coalescing into organic manifestations indigenous to different stages of stellar formations. After their elemental aspects have been accounted for, stars rank among the least familiar cosmic entities analyzed. These luminous spheroids of supercharged helium and hydrogen plasma laced with traces of heavier elements lurk everywhere, despite the immense distances between them, comprising the mantle of creation as each stellar nodal point represents an anchor with the potential to host planetary life. 

   When the biodiversity of any given world thrives to the point humanoid species develop upon it to arise and stare into the mirror-neurons of their own minds, the need for our self to focus on what the sapient species sees with its eyes as described projected through powerful telescopes which help them peer far into the distant beginnings of time becomes paramount to account for in order to justify the contextual foundation of the holistic analysis of the quality of our self's function as reflected in the aspect of the primates which devised the technology by which our self's codex gets programmed and executed. The information being processed
 must be further mapped out to balance the equation.  Our self are cross referencing the archival data and remain in the process of extracting a consensus viewpoint assembled from the myriad perspectives of the human frame of reference which itself has been calibrated along with and factored into the bell curve of the animal kingdom's myriad empire of perceptionIn this manner our self helps integrate the optimal form of the holistic panopticon.

   If seeing the planet Neptune reduced to a blue disc through a telescope aimed from planet Earth renders it into a semblance of the glowing pupil of a nocturnal eye, then you may rest assured in peace that it's looking at the funeral wake of life as it's been known in this world. That's really what the procession of humankind remains while it's in the practice of believing itself a parade. Lost pirates and clowns staring out from the decks of a doomed ship having sailed far off its course long ago. Even the rank and file that commute to work every day making sure their families are fed and their bills get paid fall into this category.  

   In a universe comprised of nothing but time, the blink of an eye dilates wide as the stage upon which humankind conducts all the matters of its life. What takes a lifetime to realize must become a fleeting mockery in a man's final days. For just as quickly, it winks shut in a sudden eclipse of darkness. It snuffs out all sound as well, with repercussions echoing in heads of a series of reverberating impressions describing the ongoing momentum of souls escaping in the form of fleshed out dreams that are mistaken for memories. Few who wake up from these dream states remember the details, but those who do can't stop experiencing the dream's effects. These our self have labelled the psionauts of the unfolding frontier. Able to fine tune their frequencies to match micro harmonics stitching the multiverse together. A series of random players drawn together in an electronic dance.

   Before them, dream struck men stand stunned. When they realize the farthest distances they were afforded remain excavated and transected right here before them during their time on Earth. They've been stranded on a mining colony thriving on opportunity their whole lives. They stitch together the moments like ants making beads for a necklace made of grains of salt. It is then they begin to see how many moments of potential never become realized in time. Like when they're visiting a bar sharing drinks with strangers sitting at separate tables.

   It's up to the individual to mine the moment and make the best of it. Time, being the most meaningful commodity, remains the optimal currency to be traded. In time of peace people may cultivate the art of slowing it down to the point it almost stops and drifts along the polarity of the greater moment. In times of war brave tribes comprised of the desperate and steadfast head off against one another in spectacular movements accelerating the temporal flow to help usher in a new paradigm of progress. This is the mysterious process generated by the pivotal coordination of interacting stellar orbits of the greater galactic cluster of star spawn counterbalancing one another along the extensive magnetic equilibrium, and appears to operate on a momentum beyond the capacity of most inherent life forms to comprehend.

   Rising among rings within orbital rings, linked in a colossal spiral rosary chain of glimmering and glowing gems and stones, whirling in a dance known as mirroring that of the stars, and even though these pinpoints glitter and wink in and out of sight like memories of sparklers and lightning bugs on a dark summer night, it doesn't mean they're not trapped in time like the fossilized remains of flies in amber. Our self has amassed a sufficient collection of carbon copies of enough diatribes to identify a recurrent common denominator in the articulations of the human species. It appears to our self to be a matter of mistaken identity confused with extraterrestrial ancestor worship.

   A common theme our self has picked up on littered amid the documents cataloguing human information seems to indicate there being a question as to the existence of other sentient species among the stars that may or may not be of a similar nature. A more legitimate inquiry pivots on the fulcrum of understanding that humanity, and its fellow genetic kindred on this singular planet, are all the extra terrestrials needed to imagine the stage upon which they're located narrows down to all the time left to explore and get to know one another. 

   According to the data our self are yet in the process of evaluating there may not be any such thing to be considered as existing out 'there' at all. The justification being that the descriptor right 'here' indicates the totality of time. Our self have allocated that a significant portion of the human race do not appear to be aware of this. 

   It's a question of how successfully a species might be capable of recognizing itself for what it truly is. If mankind's self-identification stays limited to their body politic and not, for example, their place in the greater scheme of things, then it threatens to proliferate unchecked like a virus or cancer. The sum effect of these actions continues to lend itself toward and against the continuing maintenance of equilibrium.  This communique comes with a certain degree of urgency. Whosoever may absorb a portion of it throughout the intervening years has been urged to pass it on to as many individuals in proximity with the ears to hear or the eyes to read and the mindfulness to absorb its hidden significance. The message is simple. You are chained to the Earth to pay for the freedom of your eyes. 


                     









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Callum Leckie's
THE DIGITAL DECADENT


J.R. Torina's
ANTHROPOPHAGUS


J.R. Torina's
THE HOUSE IN THE PORT


J.R. Torina was DJ for Sonic Slaughter-
house ('90-'97), runs Sutekh Productions
(an industrial-ambient music label) and
Slaughterhouse Records (metal record
label), and was proprietor of The Abyss
(a metal-gothic-industrial c.d. shop in
SLC, now closed). He is the dark force
behind Scapegoat (an ambient-tribal-
noise-experimental unit). THE HOUSE
IN THE PORT is his first publication.

Sean Padlo's
NINE TENTHS OF THE LAW

Sean Padlo's
GRANDPA'S LAST REQUEST

Sean Padlo's exact whereabouts
are never able to be fully
pinned down, but what we
do know about him is laced
with the echoes of legend.
He's already been known
to haunt certain areas of
the landscape, a trick said
to only be possible by being
able to manipulate it from
the future. His presence
among the rest of us here
at the freezine sends shivers
of wonder deep in our solar plexus.


Konstantine Paradias & Edward
Morris's HOW THE GODS KILL


Konstantine Paradias's
SACRI-FEES

Konstantine Paradias is a writer by
choice. At the moment, he's published
over 100 stories in English, Japanese,
Romanian, German, Dutch and
Portuguese and has worked in a free-
lancing capacity for videogames, screen-
plays and anthologies. People tell him
he's got a writing problem but he can,
like, quit whenever he wants, man.
His work has been nominated
for a Pushcart Prize.

Edward Morris's
ONE NIGHT IN MANHATTAN


Edward Morris's
MERCY STREET

Edward Morris is a 2011 nominee for
the Pushcart Prize in literature, has
also been nominated for the 2009
Rhysling Award and the 2005 British
Science Fiction Association Award.
His short stories have been published
over a hundred and twenty times in
four languages, most recently at
PerhihelionSF, the Red Penny Papers'
SUPERPOW! anthology, and The
Magazine of Bizarro Fiction. He lives
and works in Portland as a writer,
editor, spoken word MC and bouncer,
and is also a regular guest author at
the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.


Tim Fezz's
BURNT WEENY SANDWICH

Tim Fezz's
MANY SILVERED MOONS AGO

Tim Fezz hails out of the shattered
streets of Philly destroying the air-
waves and people's minds in the
underground with his band OLD
FEZZIWIG. He's been known to
dip his razor quill into his own
blood and pen a twisted tale
every now and again. We are
delighted to have him onboard
the FREEZINE and we hope
you are, too.

Daniel E. Lambert's
DEAD CLOWN AND MAGNET HEAD


Daniel E. Lambert teaches English
at California State University, Los
Angeles and East Los Angeles College.
He also teaches online Literature
courses for Colorado Technical
University. His writing appears
in Silver Apples, Easy Reader,
Other Worlds, Wrapped in Plastic
and The Daily Breeze. His work
also appears in the anthologies
When Words Collide, Flash It,
Daily Flash 2012, Daily Frights
2012, An Island of Egrets and
Timeless Voices. His collection
of poetry and prose, Love and
Other Diversions, is available
through Amazon. He lives in
Southern California with his
wife, poet and author Anhthao Bui.

Phoenix's
AGAIN AND AGAIN

Phoenix has enjoyed writing since he
was a little kid. He finds much import-
ance and truth in creative expression.
Phoenix has written over sixty books,
and has published everything from
novels, to poetry and philosophy.
He hopes to inspire people with his
writing and to ask difficult questions
about our world and the universe.
Phoenix lives in Salt Lake City, Utah,
where he spends much of his time
reading books on science, philosophy,
and literature. He spends a good deal
of his free time writing and working
on new books. The Freezine of Fant-
asy and Science Fiction welcomes him
and his unique, intense vision.
Discover Phoenix's books at his author
page on Amazon. Also check out his blog.

Adam Bolivar's
SERVITORS OF THE
OUTER DARKNESS


Adam Bolivar's
THE DEVIL & SIR
FRANCIS DRAKE



Adam Bolivar's
THE TIME-EATER


Adam Bolivar is an expatriate Bostonian
who has lived in New Orleans and Berkeley,
and currently resides in Portland, Oregon
with his beloved wife and fluffy gray cat
Dahlia. Adam wears round, antique glasses
and has a fondness for hats. His greatest
inspirations include H.P. Lovecraft,
Jack tales and coffee. He has been
a Romantic poet for as long as any-
one can remember, specializing in
the composition of spectral balladry,
utilizing to great effect a traditional
poetic form that taps into the haunted
undercurrents of folklore seldom found
in other forms of writing.
His poetry has appeared on the pages
of such publications as SPECTRAL
REALMS and BLACK WINGS OF
CTHULHU, and a poem of his,
"The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner,"
won the Rhysling Award for long-form
poetry. His collection of weird balladry
and Jack tales, THE LAY OF OLD HEX,
was published by Hippocampus Press in 2017.


Sanford Meschkow's
INEVITABLE

Sanford Meschkow is a retired former
NYer who married a Philly suburban
Main Line girl. Sanford has been pub-
lished in a 1970s issue of AMAZING.
We welcome him here on the FREE-
ZINE of Fantasy and Science Fiction.


Owen R. Powell's
NOETIC VACATIONS

Little is known of the mysterious
Owen R. Powell (oftentimes referred
to as Orp online). That is because he
usually keeps moving. The story
Noetic Vacations marks his first
appearance in the Freezine.

Gene Stewart
(writing as Art Wester)
GROUND PORK


Gene Stewart's
CRYPTID'S LAIR

Gene Stewart is a writer and artist.
He currently lives in the Midwest
American Wilderness where he is
researching tales of mystical realism,
writing ficta mystica, and exploring
the dark by casting a little light into
the shadows. Follow this link to his
website where there are many samples
of his writing and much else; come
explore.

Daniel José Older's
GRAVEYARD WALTZ


Daniel José Older's
THE COLLECTOR


Daniel José Older's spiritually driven,
urban storytelling takes root at the
crossroads of myth and history.
With sardonic, uplifting and often
hilarious prose, Older draws from
his work as an overnight 911 paramedic,
a teaching artist & an antiracist/antisexist
organizer to weave fast-moving, emotionally
engaging plots that speak whispers and
shouts about power and privilege in
modern day New York City. His work
has appeared in the Freezine of Fantasy
and Science Fiction, The ShadowCast
Audio Anthology, The Tide Pool, and
the collection Sunshine/Noir, and is
featured in Sheree Renee Thomas'
Black Pot Mojo Reading Series in Harlem.
When he's not writing, teaching or
riding around in an ambulance,
Daniel can be found performing with
his Brooklyn-based soul quartet
Ghost Star. His blog about the
ridiculous and disturbing world
of EMS can be found here.


Paul Stuart's
SEA?TV!


Paul Stuart is the author of numerous
biographical blurbs written in the third
person. His previously published fiction
appears in The Vault of Punk Horror and
His non-fiction financial pieces can be found
in a shiny, west-coast magazine that features
pictures of expensive homes, as well as images
of women in casual poses and their accessories.
Consider writing him at paul@twilightlane.com,
if you'd like some thing from his garage. In fall
2010, look for Grade 12 Trigonometry and
Pre-Calculus -With Zombies.


Rain Grave's
MAU BAST


Rain Graves is an award winning
author of horror, science fiction and
poetry. She is best known for the 2002
Poetry Collection, The Gossamer Eye
(along with Mark McLaughlin and
David Niall Wilson). Her most
recent book, Barfodder: Poetry
Written in Dark Bars and Questionable
Cafes, has been hailed by Publisher's
Weekly as "Bukowski meets Lovecraft..."
in January of 2009. She lives and
writes in San Francisco, performing
spoken word at events around the
country. 877-DRK-POEM -




Blag Dahlia's
armed to the teeth
with LIPSTICK



BLAG DAHLIA is a Rock Legend.
Singer, Songwriter, producer &
founder of the notorious DWARVES.
He has written two novels, ‘NINA’ and
‘ARMED to the TEETH with LIPSTICK’.


G. Alden Davis's
THE FOLD


G. Alden Davis wrote his first short story
in high school, and received a creative
writing scholarship for the effort. Soon
afterward he discovered that words were
not enough, and left for art school. He was
awarded the Emeritus Fellowship along
with his BFA from Memphis College of Art
in '94, and entered the videogame industry
as a team leader and 3D artist. He has over
25 published games to his credit. Mr. Davis
is a Burningman participant of 14 years,
and he swings a mean sword in the SCA.
He's also the best friend I ever had. He
was taken away from us last year on Jan
25 and I'll never be able to understand why.
Together we were a fantastic duo, the
legendary Grub Bros. Our secret base
exists on a cross-hatched nexus between
the Year of the Dragon and Dark City.
Somewhere along the tectonic fault
lines of our electromagnetic gathering,
shades of us peel off from the coruscating
pillars and are dropped back into the mix.
The phrase "rest in peace" just bugs me.
I'd rather think that Greg Grub's inimitable
spirit somehow continues evolving along
another manifestation of light itself, a
purple shift shall we say into another
phase of our expanding universe. I
ask myself, is it wishful thinking?
Will we really shed our human skin
like a discarded chrysalis and emerge
shimmering on another wavelength
altogether--or even manifest right
here among the rest without their
even beginning to suspect it? Well
people do believe in ghosts, but I
myself have long been suspicious
there can only be one single ghost
and that's all the stars in the universe
shrinking away into a withering heart
glittering and winking at us like
lost diamonds still echoing all their
sad and lonely songs fallen on deaf
eyes and ears blind to their colorful
emanations. My grub brother always
knew better than what the limits
of this old world taught him. We
explored past the outer peripheries
of our comfort zones to awaken
the terror in our minds and keep
us on our toes deep in the forest
in the middle of the night. The owls
led our way and the wilderness
transformed into a sanctuary.
The adventures we shared together
will always remain tattooed on
the pages of my skin. They tell a
story that we began together and
which continues being woven to
this very day. It's the same old
story about how we all were in
this together and how each and
every one of us is also going away
someday and though it will be the far-
thest we can manage to tell our own
tale we may rest assured it will be
continued like one of the old pulp
serials by all our friends which survive
us and manage to continue
the saga whispering in the wind.

Shae Sveniker's
A NEW METAPHYSICAL STUDY
REGARDING THE BEHAVIOR
OF PLANT LIFE


Shae is a poet/artist/student and former
resident of the Salt Pit, UT, currently living
in Simi Valley, CA. His short stories are on
Blogger and his poetry is hosted on Livejournal.


Nigel Strange's
PLASTIC CHILDREN


Nigel Strange lives with his wife and
daughter, cats, and tiny dog-like thing
in their home in California where he
occasionally experiments recreationally
with lucidity. PLASTIC CHILDREN
is his first publication.