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QWF Writes: Take the Train, Eh? by Ian McGillis
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A Clowesian world by Taylor Tower
When I was a teenager, I was in a cult. It started at the Mall. There was a novelty store called Natural Wonders where my best friends and I spent all of our time. We latched onto a kindred spirit, Josh, a twenty-something employee who humored us to the point of jeopardizing his minimum-wage job on several occasions.
In Benjy Begins Responsibility by Benjamin Hackman
Berlin 2013
It’s almost not there
Berlin builds, forgets itself.
Ost: A bitter pils
QWF Writes: Secrets and Storytelling by Monique Polak
Secrets make great stories. I think I understood this even as a child, when during dinner parties, I liked to sit under the dining room table. If I sat long enough, the guests forgot I was there… and then I’d hear the best stories, ones not meant for a little girl’s consumption.
Psychic animation by Taylor Tower
Sitting in front of a laptop with a digital drawing pad at his side, Gruber asks for a volunteer from the audience to do an improvised animation of their psychic spirit. A contemporary dancer from the front row steps up, and Gruber asks him to choose a background and foreground color from the computer’s colour wheel. He begins to doodle, narrating as he goes along.