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In the Clouds [1]

Fiction [2]
2.28.18

How would it feel to move through a landscape where the most distinguishing features are missing? The artist Cory Arcangel created a unique environment like this with his piece Super Mario Clouds [3] by altering the code of the video game Super Mario Brothers and removing all the graphics except for the iconic scrolling clouds. This week, try setting a short story in a location that has been ominously stripped of its usual characteristics: a forest with no trees, a supermarket with nothing on the shelves, a city with no humans. Will this setting create an eerie tone or inspire an altered way of life?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/in_the_clouds [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://collection.whitney.org/object/20588