As a joke, you use your cell phone to dial your own number. Someone picks up. “How can you do that?” they ask. “I’m in New York. I’m on a bus. I’m at an airport. I’m driving in a car. I’m doing many things.” You are in fact doing many things. You’re on a bus, […]
You’re on an island away from home. A plane can seat 90 passengers. But there are 92 people. Someone has to stay. When you go to the airport, you shouldn’t care where you sit. But the idea is that you won’t care about a seat in the back. You want to be comfortable. If you’re […]
A woman comes up to you in a restaurant. She doesn’t know you are a detective following her. She is suspect. She walks over to a woman sitting alone, holds her head in her lap, and places her hand over the woman’s mouth and nose. She laughs. The victim dies. She puts her hand on […]
A cell phone is found inside a sealed Egyptian tomb. The owner of the phone was a woman whose name was scratched in the wall of the tomb. However, the team cannot be certain that the tomb was not originally inhabited by male pharaohs, and that the woman was a concubine of a pharaoh. When […]
You’re sitting in a cafe talking with a stranger. They say the words, “It begins raining outside” and it immediately starts raining despite today is a sunny day. There is a moment in my life when the principles of an artist were applied to a subject that made it not only meaningful, but positive. It […]
You’re moments late to everything. You watch busses pull away as you run behind them, you miss the first 5 minutes of every movie, and you have never caught a green light. One day, you arrive on time. And you’re greeted with a “good job!” by a coworker. It’s always the same coworker, and they […]
You work at an airport and there is one person waiting for “arrivals” every week. You notice they leave alone every time. No-one can see what you notice, but in your gut you know that you need to get to the bottom of this. What is going on? How does a person who can’t even […]
You were waiting at a crosswalk when someone you didn’t recognize started waving from across the street. You took a long look at the driver who was waving in a futile attempt to get you to turn around and go back across the street. When you finally decided to continue on your way you suddenly […]
You were writing a book at the cafe when someone left you a note. There was a phone number. One of the last time I was in a restaurant in Chiang Mai, I watched a group of women pull out a camera, point it at the next table, and start snapping. The people there were […]
You wake up the day after an epic party. You’re not where you expected to be. Maybe you woke up at home, or maybe you woke up in a hotel somewhere else. Maybe you woke up in a hospital bed. Maybe you woke up in a little, dingy room with a bunch of hospital equipment […]