Gan | Substack

I The appointment had been scheduled under another name three weeks earlier.

Jun 17 • Gan

A brood parasite of unknown breeding, I was delivered to a halfway house of maladjusted halfsiblings and the unwanted strangers paid by the state to…

Jun 7 • Gan

Joan said she had a bad feeling about the assignment before I had even spoken the name aloud.

May 25 • Gan

The storm warnings repeated continuously over the AM band, issuing from the local college receivers in tones of rehearsed composure.

May 18 • Gan

Silas kept his eyes on his work as Chapman came through the door.

May 10 • Gan

A Pilgrim's Progress 2

The motel waited another quarter mile down the shoulder, its office dark at this hour, a neon vacancy light blinking red against the grey afternoon.

Apr 27 • Gan

Their founding monument stood where the basin steepened, an epitaph marking the point where escape became difficult.

Apr 26 • Gan

The road did not belong to anyone.

Apr 6 • Gan

As found in a bookcase, or in bodies left to rest in bed, there is a need for objective truth to be recorded and kept.

Mar 30 • Gan

May 2 • Gan

Winter’s desolate cabin fever gripped me this grey season.

Mar 22 • Gan

Alone in the forest, I have always found transcendence.

Mar 15 • Gan

I sat beside the great window and ate stale popcorn.

Mar 10 • Gan

Our vessel was anchored.

Mar 7 • Gan

Field note- Library

-The following was recovered after the suspect read it aloud to those present

Feb 28 • Gan

Jodie was in a sunbeam, face pressed to a screen door as it was announced somberly they would be idle at the motel until Sunday morning.

Feb 25 • Gan

At this latitude, working ten-hour shifts inside a factory means that on a workday your skin will not feel sunlight for five months of the year.

Feb 22 • Gan

Haunting a Motel 2

Focus on the brass tacks.

Feb 14 • Gan

Feb 13 • Gan

Briar Hill Plague 2

The invasive blackberry is busy claiming every unremembered crease and neglection in the Briar Hills.

Feb 7 • Gan

With wisdom we find purpose.

Feb 3 • Gan

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