Soyos Shorts

The Nightly National News comes on every weeknight at 18:00. It begins with a 30-second music and graphics intro, engineered with the latest in distractive hypnosis aesthetics, attention-grabbing and lulling simultaneously. All the screens across the nation, whether wall-mounted monitors, cell phones, or retro-designed television-like models, are equipped with Stimulant-Attention-Sensors (SAS). These gauge audience news-approval based on metrics like eye-dilation, heart rate, hydration levels, and facial muscle contraction, doing real-time national data analysis to measure not only favorability of current events, but also things like credibility, sexual arousal and addiction capacity. More primitive recording devices are also employed for capturing what people say, and more commonly, to measure cheers, jeers, booing and crying. A citizen data-point is also registered if the SAS registers any human absence. Welcome to the Nightly National News. I’m your host. Cool of y’all to join us. F

CHAMBER  A barren room with textured, off-white wallpaper holds a black sensory deprivation tank, sleeping quarters that hew more closely to a mausoleum. Who's inside? The outside of the device is coated with flashing screens cycling through a dynamic assortment of imagery, replicating the chaos of a social media newsfeed: bathing suit thirst traps, overly-composed lunch photos, war crime footage, ads for every imaginable product, and digital detritus like glitching links, disembodied thumbs, and floating hearts. This semiotic sensory nightmare is scored by thick droning noise.  CHAPEL  Darkness recedes to the edges of a small pentagonal shrine, the perimeter delineated by prayer candles of a distinctly commercial variety. In the center sits Iris, goth attire, shock of vibrant ginger hair draped over her shoulders, intertwined with glowing green vials of toxic waste. Spread around her are an eclectic mix of esoteric spell-books and tabloid magazines. Her eyes are closed in pre-show

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