The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2013-2014 (2014)
“ROBOT Picture an iguana. No, not that one. It’s way too big. And the color is wrong. And not there. About six feet to the left. On second thought, never mind the iguana. This looks more like Arizona. But it’s not. It’s Nevada, and you’ve messed it up again.
On a rock nearby sits a skink. Baking. The sky’s a hard, bright blue lens, and everything under it is like Food Network outtakes.
Close by, a patch of cooked dirt like every other suddenly shifts. Then, just when you think it must be the heat and the light playing tricks on your eyes, it does it again.
Now it tips up and slides and a hand reaches up from below, scarred, scuffed, dirt-encrusted, trembling. If we were making a horror movie we’d find some jarring music and play it.
But it’s not that kind of hand.
It looks like it’s made of white plastic.
It gropes, claws at the dirt, and then pulls.
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