Simon Sellars: Sleepy Brain Archives

by Sarah Endacott

image by Greg Serafin
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A Little Girl

music

(noises)

a priest

the family car

(under the house)

a funny smell

(thousands of years)

physically impossible

restless

(a dream)

delicate instruments

World War Two

(the original owners)

the sudden appearance of
her brother

damp spots

(children)

telephone calls

(the answers)

a normal life again

vanished

Contact

the lake

(chandeliers)

crash site

(laughing)

the government department

a letter

(this very room)

their birthplace

all three

(time)

changed the course
of HUMAN history

messages

(a cover-up)

bruises

exactly the same spot

electricity

the bible

The Expert

identical twins

(an uncanny
resemblance)

a signal

photographs

(recordings of a
forgotten language)

certain parts of the world

the number nine

(somehow different)

proof

sacrifices

in an unusual position

(a doorway)

tiny pieces

Egyptian carvings

mating rituals

(under the right
conditions)

only visible from the air

the past

(LONG ago)

FAmiLIAR

(cold)

stones

writing

(the staircase)

traced it to this house

HER HAIR

(in the air)

her dress

the 1950s

STARTling revelations

(a chicken)

singing

by the wrist

(fire)

an ancient ceremony

the wind

medical authorities

(the original meaning of the word)

asleep

NAMES

their wedding

(advanced
CIVILisations)

conflicting reports

the only c l u e to

his whereabouts

recent footage

(walking)

SOUTH AMERICAN river systems

(water)

ordinary everyday people

AN ISOSCELES
TRIANGLE

facts

forty years

burnt into her memory

the only
oneofitskind

(cigar-shaped)

light

CONverts

(the speed of light)

burns

questions

experiments

(other life forms)

horses

(hair ON THE BACK
of your neck)

the overwhelming
evidence

radiation

A SMALL TOWN

(the window ledge)

another dimension

documented powers

special herbs

beyond your
wildest imagination

(certain items were missing)

all over their bodies

LIVE as we know it

life