strange organisms
by uzwi
I dream a lot about watching strange organisms. They’re not large. Infestations. Algal mats. Microscopic activity in crustal basalt, detected only via byproduct, “perhaps the largest ecosystem on earth”. Not precisely animals. And most often, it has to be said, the kind of things that grow in layers in a drain. They’re soft and mushroom-coloured. I also dream of that wiry, fibrous stuff you get in a bad avocado. In this case it’s a dark red and it runs through everything.
the m john harrison blog 
Suddenly the entire sky seemed to be filled with points of gold. Then it was coming down on us, like fine pollen, like yellow dust. It lay on our roof slopes, it sifted down onto our sidewalks, covered our shirtsleeves and the tops of our cars. We did not know what to make of it.
Steven Millhauser, ‘The Invasion from Outer Space’.
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/02/09/090209fi_fiction_millhauser?printable=true&curr%E2%80%A6#ixzz2Njx34dYt