Contributions by Joel Morris
Joel Morris received Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies in 2011 from Northwestern University, where he has continued to teach courses in language and literature. His stories and articles have appeared in American Literary Review, The German Quarterly, and The Journal of Modern Literature, among others. He has just completed a novel.
The Tall Trees: A Juno Novelette
Paul Scheerbart
translated by Joel Morris
The tall trees groped more and more intensely in the air with their long branch arms and could not calm themselves down; they wanted to know for certain what they once were, back when they did not yet have branches.
The asteroid Juno was a thick round disc. It resembled an earthly pancake. The diameter of this pancake measured no more than 200 kilometers; it was at most five kilometers thick, but it was only that thick in the middle—towards the edges it became thinner and thinner.
The only inhabitants of Juno were immensely tall tree creatures, whose roots entwined together in the middle of the planet. The trees reached extremely high up into the ether—in the middle nearly a hundred kilometers high—just as much on one side of … Read More »
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