An amnesiac’s nightmarish return to consciousness coincides with the mood of one of Melbourne’s hidden laneways at night in this nouvelle démeublée noire from “The Spleen of Melbourne” project.
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When I came to, I found myself in a black square. My head was ringing, but nothing shook loose.
I listened for a clue: The hour was so early that the gulls had drifted in to colonize the briefly abandoned city, and yet it was so late that even the last tram had retired.
I couldn’t shake that static. Then I realized it wasn’t in my head: I had tuned in to an empty channel.
Footsteps behind me—getting closer.
Were they coming to help or hurt me? To these and other questions I framed to myself—who? what? where? why?—my mind drew a blank.
Out here, inside myself, something shattered in a scream.
released October 29, 2023
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