Ibts and Epices
This is an experiment in adding to a collective metaverse via a regular blogging of random drabbles relating to The Ersatz, the larger work of fiction I’ve been developing for the past couple of years. (By the way, a drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length.) Then, what recourse does The Ersatz provide an unsettled mind? Like any fragment of the metaverse, recourse is rarely a factor of imagined justification and more often an equation of circular logic that transcends even the most elusive explanations. There is no proof of these things… and there never can be. But, momentary explanations of all that exists between the two points we choose to call the beginning and the end, if a circle of logic and illusion can have a beginning and an end, would need to be proof enough for any skeptical mind. That is assuming there is ever any justifications to be found in art. The Ersatz is not to be found where one would normally look for such places. It is in an of itself, and by its own definition, a roughly sketched imitation of something more tangible. This is the gateway to another place. The Ersatz exists but only in our minds, and as such necessitates a certain unveiling of itself though the written word. Scribblefly is the omnipresent narrator of these dialogs, existing merely but to service his own reciprocal existence. What is trapped in this loop, between the ringlets of story, is nothing but a garden woven with countless roots feeding on the waters hidden below. The Ersatz records time in spans unimaginable, an Ourorboros, a day with hours composed of millennia. The fabric of this place loops and folds upon itself, and but for glancing moments of those long intervals the fabric of The Ersatz brushes past the textures of other realities passing between them bits fibers and energy, so much dust and static clicking and clinging in the aether. — Sotus Mako, Grasses and Philosophies Season 1 Building Three This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella. Part 1: Episode 001, Episode 002, Episode 003, Episode 004, Episode 005, and more to come… |
