First Artifact Story Up at Necessary Fiction: Robert Kloss

Robert’s stories always take you to this bizarre, dream-like place where alligators run wild and people may or may not also be animals or kings or figments of imagination. There are no rules, but this doesn’t mean the stories don’t have form, shape, and meaning–but just like a dream, you’re free to take whatever twist your mind thinks up.

His piece today, inspired by the very first Ancient City artifact to be put up on Necessary Fiction, bears all the hallmarks of the above and does something else, too: it evokes our natural state of wonder, and couples it with our insatiable curiosity and taste for science and technology, our drive to find the way to live forever.

Read it here.