100 words: motel
Monday, March 10, 2025
The reason it’s a cliché is because it’s true, Lloyd Cole sung, clunkily. But the cliché is also true, like mirrors facing each other, infinitely reflecting each other, or a fractal. And none more cliched than American motels. Neon signs, a strip of single storey down at heel rooms at the back with cars parked in front, a crumbling swimming pool with the hint of algae, the simmering highway roaring past a few feet away. Even the quirk is clichéd, or at least having a quirk is a cliché. In this case, a small friendly octopus in the swimming pool.