In the land of winter, death and fear, remember to breathe.
Elksvald is a world of winter, a cold, solitary place where people go to disappear, willingly or not, and suffer a sentence of brutal isolation on the way to pitiable death. When a young man finds himself thrust into the ill fate of the winterscape, his life is spared by a chance encounter with a strange woman, who's relationship with the land is unexpected. Through his relationship with her and the corridors of cold and strange, Evad gets to bear witness to an odd, enchanting place which ultimately comes to reflect parts of him he could not ever hope to understand.
Style for the sake of imagination, and imagination for its own sake.
Proliphagy is... not for everyone. It is chiefly uncompromising, and strange details harbour a certain number of odd, and even inconsistent, idiosyncrasies. Those who insist upon a clean, clear diction and a reasonable adherence to formal correctness in the English languageās use... may be a bit frustrated. However, as a result, what Proliphagy does do, it does like nothing else can.
Proliphagy is a collection of deliberate, peculiarly short stories. It is an exerciser in style and an attempt to crystallize imagination near its purest form. This one, of Impudence, is about the stories of places and people, sometimes different than we imagine and other times made different by how we imagine them. A tree in the middle of nowhere, a being valued for the false myth of what they aren't, the blood of the stars and those who don't bleed at all, among other things, make up the thin framework structuring the aforementioned crystallization.
Another day in Proliphagy land another set of places to see and characters to meet! Proliphagy is a series of wildly independent, increasingly outrageous words seeking to touch base on the hallowed ground of ineffable imagination. This one, of Humility, lives somewhere between its siblings, grounded enough to speak of feelings in an anthropomorphic language but heedless enough to remember the feverish, inscrutable tongue which brought it to be in the first place. It revels in distance, the exploration of worlds around and within humbles in its delivery of perspective and emboldens the love extended to each new thing we lay our minds upon. Being star-stranded, a prison of places, a city asleep, the birth of fundamentals and those most precious details hiding in the dark are all things you can expect to find throughout the strange journey.
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