Negative Space

by B.R. Yeager

What forces are we unable to sense that nonetheless influence our existence? Is it possible for us to become aware of these forces? And, perhaps most terribly, what do these forces intend for us?

Plants secrete chemicals that draw wasps to kill caterpillars

Marko Allen, Pauline Smelz and Zackariah Schwimmerman each shot themselves through the throat and left nothing behind.

Esdras of Grenado? Unfortunate Traveller.

Grass reeking of his oily skin and unwashed pits. Trees as brittle as his calcium starved bones. The streams and bogs filled with his piss and spit. His life in a landscape.