Monday, May 15, 2006

hummingbirds form huge iridescent swarms like locusts and decimate suburban gardens.In a hotel which is a front for other, more nefarious businesses, chefs cook breakfasts, fry bacon, eggs and tomatoes, heat the beans and toast the bread, while kitchen staff put out cereal and croissants, milk, sugar, little pads of butter, jam and marmalade. receptionists sit by telephones in huge ornate lobbies, staring at the chandeliers, maids clean the rooms and change the beds daily, placing a foil-wrapped chocolate under every pillow, a man plays the piano in the lounge bar of an evening, maintenance men change light-bulbs and fix drinks machines, faulty kettles and trouser presses, waiters loiter menacingly round tables like vultures above a dying ox, doormen in embroidered overcoats wait outside while just inside an army of porters wait like substitutes in a football game, and yet, every room is empty. the hotel has never had a guest.florists gather flowers from graves and arrange them into wedding bouquets.Aboard a cruise-liner, passengers mutiny and force the captain to remain in the West Indies for 5 years while police negotiate with the ring-leaders.Galaxies collide like continents. In zoos and wildlife parks across the world, animals, long extinct in the wild, refuse their food and sit staring listlessly into space. All eventually die mysterious deaths. Their hearts simply stop beating.

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