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A Small Rectangle

from Excavations in Substation by Nigel Ayers

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Marked by a small rectangle which was completely empty., the second item was a hand drawn map, cable-tied to the edges of the ether.
Chemical-smelling paper responded to his vision.
It was tricky.
It was laden with rotting leaves,
The smell enveloped him
He wore a single black leather glove.
He appeared to come from nothing, come out of the air, out of the void – a face, a room.
a black crescent-shaped crack all year round
but every time they’d draw a blank.
She sniffed and turned her back on him.
“No way.”
Another shake of the head, another wave flooded in, a change in the quality of the air.
A bank of television sets, strobe lights.
The lights everywhere were so bright.
No time for work or thought any more.
The brightness was harsh and didn’t fade overnight.
I didn’t get any sleep.
At that moment the strange cave-painting designs drop to the bottom to form a pool of one long word no one will ever read.
The document scrolls continuously, its pages ooze letters of plastic rain.
But she could hear the thunder and see the electronic storm.
The sky looked beaten, bruised, and swollen.
These days with a whoosh and a roar special programs induced dangerous ideas and acted like a hammer
Break through firewalls.

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from Excavations in Substation, released February 2, 2024

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Nocturnal Emissions' Nigel Ayers has continued to work with a strong underground of cult support, avoiding music industry fashions, and following his own creative path he concentrated on creating a strong sense of a wilderness identity through sound.

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