Bedtime Stories for Nobody

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.

When I was young, I promised myself I would learn to fly

Some time spent thinking about flight.

Several Pounds of Chert Were Walking Down The Street

What sedimentary rock does on its days off.

White, Black, Blue, Purple, Green, Brown

Selections from Werner's Nomenclature of Colors

Open House

A story about some people spending time together.

Pitch for a Virtual Reality Game

I liked Myst.

You Go To The Moon!

Oh my gosh, you're so excited!

An Artist Lives Near The 24th St Station

A portrait.

Fenton's Fan Fiction

A description of delights, a creamy compendium.

Fenton’s Fan Fiction

A description of delights, a creamy compendium.

A Brief Summary of Cows

For the curious and the uncomprehending

Looking Up, You Notice You Are Lost

A story about public transit, and public transit riders.

I Brush My Teeth Before I Go To Bed

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

Five Places to Spend a Quiet Hour

Let the Lillies Consider

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,...

Our Library

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

The Stranger

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

Rabbit, Eagle, Fish

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

Glass

Kinds of Feelings

Abridged.

Four Small Windows

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

Heart of Gold

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

Attract Songbirds to Your Home

Attract songbirds to your home with clean water and fresh fruit.

The Battle Island Mermaid

Like so many things called mermaids, it wasn't one.

Different Lights

This one is kind of sad, and if you listen to these before going to sleep, and you don't like thinking about sad things right before you go to sleep, consider listening to this one at a different time.  In...

This episode is called "Dark"

Inspired by times when people are whispering all at once.