What Was That Kid’s Name?
A sixth-grade outlier disappears from the social world after already having been trained into invisibility by everyone around him.
Emission
Older residents remember pink “fluffies” falling near a chemical plant and laughing about tricking younger children into eating them. Civic memory survives as a joke after the witnesses themselves are dead.
PORQUIPIG
A much larger street fiction follows Porkfat, Sour Annie and Champagne Charlie through pimp mythology, Barbary Bay, Hollywood Boulevard, money, violence and bad narration.
The container
These stories follow “MATERIA,” an inventory of burning architecture and toxic substances. The ordering makes personal disappearance, industrial contamination and street legend feel like different scales of the same civic memory rather than separate themes.