Isar Stories

A melancholic reimagination of California Stars, written in Munich, drifting between memory, solitude, and the cold waters of the Isar.

June 'Snow' Blanc was your average thirteen-going-on-fourteen year old girl. She went out with her friends, she went to the southern California beach, she went to school and she had a great boyfriend. Until the day she didn't wake up. To her friends and family she disappeared, but the experience for Snow is much different. All she has experienced for what feels like an eternity is darkness and thoughts. She doesn't know what she is, nonetheless who she is. All her life is now is questions of her existence and reliving memories with her friends, and even then she doesn't know if they are real. Then she was found over 350 years later. This is her story - a story of love, betrayal, aliens, and what it truly means to be human.

A short poem based on a news item, and the happy synchronicity of reading Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning'.