Midnight came and the beach had light from a cut of moon that hung near the ocean and made the final cement from humanity glow a bit before sand came and extended to the waves that brought tide and white static to the arcade. The facility was open to the Pacific Ocean and Mission Beach had mostly gone home as I battled black holes and killer starships in a Space Wars cabinet, hoping I’d live to find a vegan burger. Yes, the Vectorbeam™ monitor worked quite well…until it was time to barefoot home as the moonlight dropped and stars went quiet.
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Word/visual author Lance Mazmanian: Random House distributed with Harlan Ellison, got a coffee as payment. Mazmanian appears 2025 in London Writers’ Salon, Fiction On the Web UK, Poetries In English Magazine (Los Angeles), more. 2026 Pushcart nom. Leonard Cohen (RIP) wanted a chapbook with Mazmanian. Til the Scrapbook File imploded. Site: https://archive.org/details/@andromeda_snow_globe
