pioneertown.

ANYA VOSTROVA: "Draw conclusions. Assume that the changing mood has to do with planetary shifts, universal realignments. Give nominal order to the chaos or let it rip you open and devour any lingering delusions of control."

Jack Sullivan: "A staircase, illuminated by a single lightbulb on the landing. Footsteps approaching from the upstairs hallway. The man-lamp appears. He walks down the stairs at the same slow, funeral pace as before, until he disappears out of frame."

Chris Daly: "gears to waste in this flat oasis, dusk, low dwellings, no one sitting out, i smoke boo near a low, piled stone house, no sinuses, i'd be getting drunk. that later."

Ryan Clark: "Stare at everything so neat in rows, child. Hear a sound your feet know to make over white linoleum as you try to find what is layawayed for Christmas.

Marco Etheridge: "The river doesn’t care. Life’s a haphazard flow. It is not omniscient. You can abrogate your free will if you choose to, but you can’t blame the consequences on anybody else.

Rebecca Kilroy: "There’s a whole spectrum of behaviors that seem innocent until they aren’t. I thought about the students who liked to run up and hug me when I got to class. I suddenly felt like I had to confess."