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dream 2015.03.29

I stand on a bridge with a giant tribesman alongside an enormous freighter beached in shallow water. It’s full of refugee pilgrims, many of whom spill over onto the shore. My companion shows me one of his traditional practices. He holds a long pole with a hollowed-out cup at its end. In his other hand […]

overheard avian conversation

The other day I heard three birds discussing the state of the world. ‘It will get worse before it gets better,’ said the first bird. The second bird harumphed. ‘Actually, it will appear better for a time but then continue to get much worse.’ Pausing to look up from scratching around in the dirt, the […]

ahoy chicagoans

To those readers living in the Chicago area: if you’ve reached the point where you feel you can leave your quarantine unit without enduring heart palpitations in order to do some socially distant browsing at one of your local bookshops, my novel A Set of Lines is now available at that fine Chicago institution known […]

the new experiment

From its exterior the laboratory suggests disuse: a grey windowless mass of concrete block ringed by a rusting chain-link fence entwined with clumps of chicory and Queen Anne’s lace. This is intentional. For inside, beneath the glare of a single fluorescent bulb, the scientist toils over his most ambitious experiment to date. He has been […]

visit the nobody zone

In a new series on the Ghost Paper Archives site, the resident archivist-reporters explore the Nobody Zone in words and images. Read the first installment and subscribe for future posts by clicking the Follow link at the bottom right corner of the page (no WordPress account needed).

self-interrogation on collaboration

In a new post on the Ghost Paper Archives site, several of the interstitial archivists self-interrogate themselves, both directly and tangentially, on the subject of collaboration.

Ghost Paper Archives

Ghost Paper Archives (GPA) is the imprint under which A Set of Lines has been published. GPA is a publishing collaborative focused on the creation and dissemination of texts and imagery, online and in print, that document facets of the human colonization of Earth. These facets reflect a tendency toward, or even a fixation on, […]

Now Available: A Set of Lines

A Set of Lines: a novel by S. D. Stewart Last night I drew all night. I copied the images from the textbook and then I drew them again freehand—I made them move on the page, lengthened the lines and darkened the centers. The tree, the river, the old textbook—a triptych with shifting borders hangs […]

the rat

The rat keeps gnawing through the bags so we keep adding more bags—double- and triple-bagging and onward toward what feels like a futile infinitude. We follow the rat from room to room, watch as it improbably slips through tiny cracks and crevices. At one point we corner it under a bed in a cyclindrical indentation […]

spying on the neighbors