Tag: Nuclear Man
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TV Gleam 2.hro
It isn’t instantaneous what happens to a boy stuck in a field of light The brightness saturating everything whiteness without end If he’s strong enough he’ll become static A frequency of light and darkness The light path cools and fades. A man seizes and screams on the cold metal floor. His mind hasn’t caught up…
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TV Gleam.hro
The wood-framed television of your dusked basement flickers from the talking golden retriever and its family, drowned out by laugh- track, to black and white snow roaring with failed connection. A voice emerges, short of breath, fluctuating with strange magnetism. Mayday May…day…This is Jesse Gibson, the Nuclear Man. Mission ZΨ2573, Op… Operation Infinitum, has suffered…
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The First Wave.hro
Janice Waters turns on a desk lamp in Akron, Ohio. Heat builds as she surveys her magazine’s galleys. She leaves for a glass of orange juice, and returns to the roar of dark cedar shelves burning up the walls, across the ceiling fan, and onto the door frame that looms over Janice’s mousy blonde head.…
