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Tiny Ghosts

Tiny Ghosts
pictures and text: Dominic Peloso

I've been promising to review Tiny Ghosts for something akin to years, which is not a time frame that I thought had any sway on the internet, like trying to explain tectonic drift to a gnat. You just assume that the gnat is going to forget, not sit up nights for 120 million years to watch the Pacific widen.

Irrelevancies aside: Tiny Ghosts is a photo-comic with a lot going for it. If you like A Softer World check out TG, because there are black depths the little specters can reach that ASW's sidestepping tongue-in-cheek can't.

Tiny Ghosts is not consistent. If Mr. Peloso cut down his sentences to about half their usual lengths, he could punch up his strips considerably.

The standouts are still staggering.

LIFE WITHOUT ART

- - - catch bus - sit down - get off bus - wait - catch bus - no room, stand - get off bus - open door - whoops, automatic - enter - browse - can't find best frock - get flustered, purchase ill-fitting blouse to please overly solicitous saleslady - commission system breeds such horrors - hurry out - no bus - wait - wait - wait -
doesn't run after six??
- ask directions to subway of strolling lesbians - walk - walk - walk - begin to doubt veracity of directions - walk - begin to doubt benignity of strolling lesbians - cannot guess why, wearing flats today - walk - these are warehouses, strolling lesbians clearly agents of Satan - still voting Obama - must retain principles despite adversity -
thoroughly lost.
consider asking directions again - only people nearby homeless, drunk or alarmingly tattooed - retrace steps?
keep hearing phantom footsteps - nobody there but homeless man w/ overstuffed cart - was it this intersection, or the next?
Must have been the next. Streetlights coming on.
What city is this?
- bus schedule blowing down the street - wish had coat - give chase - blown over fence! - barbed wire. How uncivilized.
An inviting hole in the fence - - -


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