The News.

• Author: Bohince, Paula

An ultraviolet urchin (planetary, local) was lulling unaware in waves eternal when Toni's email turned to Stardust, touching a satellite's face for a nano, then crystalizing on earth in the absolute blackness of a laptop's clamshell, in zone difference. The Pacific tugged its trash as I dreamt, as the crab awoke shameless, shrugging off its burial, beginning again. The news unread was a lizard clutching drift, half-lidded, poised in ancient sleep. Red-eyed in the privacy of a humming machine, a gasp...