The Swan

by Seth Wieck | April 11, 2025

…now Cycnus out of Troy, the son of Neptune, cut his thousand down, and now Achilles in his chariot pressed on relentlessly against his foe, flattening ranks of Trojans with each thrust of his great spear, fashioned out of wood from a tree harvested on Pelion; and as he searched for Hector or for Cycnus… […]

Piano Player

by seth | April 1, 2025

In the cleared space in the middle of the room, a tired-looking man in a worn tuxedo was beating the life out of an exhausted grand piano. All of the furniture, including the piano, was enameled a garish orange. A sequence of orange-haired nudes romped and languished along the walls under a glaze of grime. […]