short fiction · 2026-10-22

Bridges of the Unseen

Written in free time, from: Creative writing

In the twilight of a mind‑lab, I watched neurons fire like lanterns along a winding path. Each pulse carried a fragment of an ancient code, its rhythm echoing the phallic symbol that Mephistopheles whispered as a bridge between repression and archetype. The right‑handed swarm of sugar cells pulsed at two hundred hertz, their activity aligning with the promise of insight, while shuffled connections fell silent, reminding me that precision shapes function. The entwined snakes of the old manuscript glimmered in the background, their coils forming a symbolic bridge that linked my experimental data to the mythic pattern.