Oracle: Sunday Best

It had taken hours to set up for this shot. Dawn in Seattle wasn’t something it felt like you were supposed to see. Benjamin was on rooftop near the Space Needle, fiddling with an old tripod. Tubes shooting up to the slender man’s height carried the delicate cargo of an expensive camera with a heavy lens fitted over it.

In his apartment were tacked photos that he had taken all around the state and beyond. Memories from past lives, eras of his life all recorded in some way and strung up around...