Paul · Shots
Shots
26 entries — Shorts and the long novel alike.
Pauldysseus — Iliad II
False dream, stampede, rally, Thersites. First-person dry narration while Pauldysseus moves agilely through the Achaean camp.
Pauldysseus — Iliad III
The vote not yet counted. Paris and Menelaus, the duel that should end the war, and the god who will not let it.
Pauldysseus — Iliad IV
The truce breaks. An arrow, a wound, and the war that resumes because a goddess wanted it so.
Pauldysseus — Iliad V
Diomedes aristeia. Mortals wound gods; the kuro shiba watches the temperature of the field.
Pauldysseus — Iliad VI
Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gate. The helmet that frightens the child. The goodbye that is also a program.
Pauldysseus — Iliad VII
Single combat, a night of burial, and the wall the Achaeans should not have built.
Pauldysseus — Iliad VIII
Zeus holds the scales. The Achaeans are driven back; the night fires bloom on the plain.
Pauldysseus — Iliad IX
The embassy to Achilles. Gifts that cannot buy a name already spent.
Odyssey
Pauldysseus on the long way home. Islands, monsters, and a dog who remembers the protocol of the hall.
Odyssey v2
A second cut of the homecoming — same identity lock, sharper motion, later camera.
Paudysseus v3
Third pass at the Odyssean lock: cream chiton, gold-rim shades, chubby-but-agile biped.
Rainy Night Glow
Neon rain, shutter shades, a fat kuro shiba dancing like the city is a private room.
Jazz Tokyo
Late-room jazz, low brass, the operator absorbed in the tune and not the camera.
Dance NYC
Manhattan night, multi-angle slow dance, hoodie and headphones still on.
Dance Paris
Wet stone, café light, a chubby silhouette turning through a Haussmann arcade.
Rooftop Tokyo
Antenna forest, skyline bloom, a self-absorbed groove on a roof that is not a stage.
Ballet Hong Kong
Harbour glass and typhoon weather. Paul as a compact danseur — not begging paws, not camera-look.
Ballet London
Thames sodium, wet granite, a pas that keeps the shades on.
Notting Hill
Blue door, Portobello, a kuro shiba placed in a film-world and moved through its seasons.
Vanity
A short on looking and being looked at. Soft body, hard glass, no wink to the lens.
Witticism
A dry joke delivered as motion. Caption as epigram, not as punchline card.
Narration
Voice-led shorts: stills that shift under a reading, not a dance cut.
Casual Hacking
The battle station as still life. Typing, screens, the everyday of a soft operator.
Two Kings
Paul and Ralph as a pair of kings. Identity lock for both; the quarrel is political, not cute.
Prize Quarrel
Achilles and Agamemnon recast. The prize is not a woman; it is a packet, a name, a slight.
Shiba Packet Sniffing
Year 2041, the Collared Age. The shortest dogs built the tallest surveillance stack. Paul learns that silence has a protocol.