STUMM!

A can of nitrate film labeled STUMM! - ‘Silent’ or, perhaps, ‘Mute’. The director’s name, ‘Jernik Krosse’, is shakily appended, followed by a thinly-scrawled ‘V’.

I’m Reading…

It is the story of a foolish student of forbidden sciences, who recruits a dancer to invite a Voiceless Singer to the world through a leak in its skin. It’s a fiction, but here on the title card is an Earth-Sign…

I’ve Read…

Here is the dancer swaying to the Drums. Here is the scholar pulsing to her Dances. Here the leak pours rain upon him; and his skin peels back into dismally thrumming wings! The film closes on the dancer’s ommatidial eyes. Had she intended it all at the start? Effect: Earth-Sign Mastery: Lesson: Drums & Dances

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