Bodies Like Meat

"Out of the aether, a new locale materializes. It might be in France or Malaysia, Greece or Angola, Mexico or Russia. The trees grow thick overnight. Dense yellow air floods the atmosphere. Light shifts from reality to dream. Someone on the news mentions its existence in passing. There are claims that the sea has evaporated, that the cosmos has returned to earth, that Gaia has turned over in her sleep. Most places do not begin this way. Something happens to mutate them into what they are now. An...