Artist Statement:
With short fiction and poetry, a writer can add the political element to socially current topics if they choose, while still actively creating in an enjoyable/plausible-reality storytelling format. Ed explores and blends biographical fiction and dreamscape planes through varied atmospheric sketches of set and setting.
Sometimes people arrive here and can’t get back, in our current time, from the future, having boarded a time-travel vessel, often looking for help or material resources, to fix their ship. One individual, traveling from a far-future scenario where society had actually significantly regressed, thought he was in the future, instead of in the past. Low-stature, bald. Approached Hall and I in a bar. Compared hand sizes and surmised he was in the future. Humble and apologetic. We had to explain he was in the past. Heavily industrialized society gone awry. With the infinite amount of possible realities the future holds, you just never know who, or what, is going to show up.
From hearsay, in the future, there will be alien acting troupes, much like the sort of multi-national acting troupes that exist today – except cultural sensitivities between performers will expand beyond past conflicts between cultures, to past worlds invaded by species.
Most accidental tourists are from around 2060, where time-travel machines are still relatively new, and primitive. Prototype vehicles. There was a young man who lived in the area for approximately a year, attempting to gather materials for what looked like a transparent, spherical apparatus, to return to 2060. I guess he found whatever part he needed, because he's not here anymore.
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