“Nothing but a lone earwig on the floor. Its antennae wiggling with clueless fervour. There could have been more, hidden somewhere in the cracks of the wooden flooring. Their tiny black and brownish abdomens slithering over each other, enthralled by the pheromonal intimacy. It is said that if the conditions are right, the earwig can swarm in masses, spilling out of crevices in multitudes as to literally cover entire household floors. Autonomous movement can give way to that of a liquefied corporeal deluge, rendering the beings powerless, entangled by the material consequences of their social drives.”
Short story on “the crevices and cracks of our most intimate inferiorities, where not even our thoughts and desires are safe from the parasitic gaze that we crave in-the-last-instance” (from the editorial by Maks Valenčič and Tisa Troha). The story was commissioned for the special issue of ŠUM Journal: Generative Horizons.
The digital issue is freely accessible at: https://www.sum.si/issues/generative-horizons
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