Here’s a video overview of all the zines I made in 2023. 🙂 I talk a little bit about each one.

If you prefer reading about the zines, check out my blog posts.

“Cat’s Cradle” is a tiny story about mimicking someone. It’s not quite sci-fi, but it feels like it…maybe because it was inspired by a scene near the end of Annihilation. (I won’t spoil the movie and neither does the zine.)

Here’s the full text of the story:

It’s like playing cat’s cradle,
but we aren’t using string.

I do one thing.
She does something else that feels like…
an extension. A continuation.

And then we swap.

She does one thing—
says a phrase, draws some lines, moves her arm
just so.

I extend—
a line of poetry, a floral doodle, a yoga pose.

And then we swap.

The training protocol doesn’t specify how to teach.
Just that I’m supposed to.

I report progress back to the team.

And then we swap.

“Modern-day Sisyphus” is a mini zine about 21st century tasks that never go away.

The zine is inspired by Sisyphus, a figure from Greek mythology who is tasked with rolling a boulder up a mountain, only for the boulder to roll back down every time he reached near the top.

The zine lists modern chores with the same repetitiveness, like washing dishes, doing laundry, and taking out trash.