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Ponds
Schism Press presents Nick Borelli's PONDS
Lord Waterbrash puts his eye to the lens of his telescope. He sees a planet with a titanic gray spot marbled with red in its ocean, a feeding frenzy of sharks, hundreds of miles wide, that has been going on for millennia. He adjusts the telescope and sees a haunted planet dragging ghosts behind it like a comet’s tail. He takes notes of their positions in the sky and adds them to a book along with those of all the other murky green worlds he has seen in the heavens. He rests his head on his desk and is soon asleep. He dreams of a witch wandering through a supermarket, muttering curses and launching them at the displayed meats, causing salmonella and e-coli to bloom in their tissues. That evening he eats white asparagus and cauliflower for dinner.
Lord Waterbrash puts his eye to the lens of his telescope. He sees a planet with a titanic gray spot marbled with red in its ocean, a feeding frenzy of sharks, hundreds of miles wide, that has been going on for millennia. He adjusts the telescope and sees a haunted planet dragging ghosts behind it like a comet’s tail. He takes notes of their positions in the sky and adds them to a book along with those of all the other murky green worlds he has seen in the heavens. He rests his head on his desk and is soon asleep. He dreams of a witch wandering through a supermarket, muttering curses and launching them at the displayed meats, causing salmonella and e-coli to bloom in their tissues. That evening he eats white asparagus and cauliflower for dinner.
59 pages, Paperback
Published September 25, 2023
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December 29, 2024
A magical little book. A wonderful and detached journey through posthuman nature. Like falling into a bizarre claymation film from the future.
March 17, 2026
What happens in the pond stays in the pond, just don’t drink the water (if you value your organs)
"Haunted houses can appear anywhere: in the middle of the forest, at the bottom of the ocean, inside the grand ballroom of a larger haunted house, in a cave miles beneath your feet. They have been seen on beaches and in rows of ten in open fields. Sailors wake up to them on the decks of their ships."
"Haunted houses can appear anywhere: in the middle of the forest, at the bottom of the ocean, inside the grand ballroom of a larger haunted house, in a cave miles beneath your feet. They have been seen on beaches and in rows of ten in open fields. Sailors wake up to them on the decks of their ships."
September 29, 2023
Strange, sad, and wildly funny at times. Could not recommend more if you are into poetry (…or frogs and mutant creatures).
December 6, 2023
A bizarre, terrifying, and puzzling book about... what, exactly? I won't say. Most of the pleasure is in finding out for yourself, but also just enjoying the prose and the way Borelli strings words together. A quick read that left me with a sick feeling in my stomach. The best kind of sick feeling.
March 28, 2026
Psychedelic dayglo nightmare vignettes; feels like it originated in a universe where instead of D&D, Adventure Time was inspired by David Ohle and the Codex Seraphinianus, with Blake Butler as showrunner and Jim Woodring the head animator.
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