Read some of Jonathan’s more surreal explorations—-fantasy fiction, rants, experimental writings, poetry.

See the end of this document for a sad epilogue to this experience not recorded on this podcast.

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The Enterprise, a Federation starship whose self-awareness has not fully awakened
Excerpted from Parallel Journeys, —Journal of My Second Incarnation in [...]

Nexus 2012

by Jonathan Zap

May 31, 2009,  early hours of the morning

I find myself standing on a murky surface looking toward [...]

Copyright 2004 by Jonathan Zap

Yes, like most of you, like all of you who have any hope of remaining on [...]

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You.

I know you.

I saw you survive red flames twisting glass and steel burning the dry night air.

Saw the heat [...]

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I.

She hadn’t left the apartment since getting the terrible message, the omen of blackness which everyone called [...]

text and  Stranger than you can Think collage copyright Jonathan Zap

I begin at the beginning he said, then I’m coming [...]

photo and text ©2005 Jonathan Zap

Another star in the galaxy of souls, one out of the six or seven billion
Swarming [...]

Short experimental work I wrote this in the Eighties.

These three little stories, which were written in one sitting as notebook sketches, were composed around 1990 when I was teaching at public high school in Long Island New York.