The ranchera leaks from busted Renaissance speakers, “Y volver, volver, volver…” a loop nobody dares kill because stopping it would mean admitting we’re never coming back.
Today at 7:00 p.m.
I release the first episode of Arcade,
It is not meant to explain anything,
but to listen to the pulse of time as it briefly slows down.
ARcade grows out of a serialized novel,
but also out of a city,
out of memory that insists,
out of machines still running even when no one is playing.
Each episode is a pulse:
brief, uneven, attentive.
A way of narrating without haste,
like placing a hand on the chest of the present
to make sure it is still alive.
The first episode goes live tonight at 7:00.
Read the serialized novel on my blog:
Subscribe to receive each installment on Substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/icenteno
Listen to the podcast on Spotify:
Tonight, Lola runs.
She runs — but not the movie.
Israel Centeno Author 
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