Block 19-South is a Lost Block located in the Shelf, one of GLMZ's lower-income districts, distinguished from the other anomaly zones by the fact that its tr…

Block 19-South is a Lost Block located in the Shelf, one of GLMZ's lower-income districts, distinguished from the other anomaly zones by the fact that its tr…

Ghost Acres is the most unsettling of the Lost Blocks — not because of what it contains, but because of what it is. Located near Old Harbor in GLMZ's waterfr…

Ghost Acres is the most unsettling of the Lost Blocks — not because of what it contains, but because of what it is. Located near Old Harbor in GLMZ's waterfr…

The most documented of GLMZ's Lost Blocks, Linden Block occupies the space between McKenzie Street and Halsted Street in the Circuit District. Satellite imag…

The most documented of GLMZ's Lost Blocks, Linden Block occupies the space between McKenzie Street and Halsted Street in the Circuit District. Satellite imag…

The smallest of GLMZ's Lost Blocks, the Caulfield Pocket consists of only three buildings arranged around a central courtyard, occupying less than half a cit…

The smallest of GLMZ's Lost Blocks, the Caulfield Pocket consists of only three buildings arranged around a central courtyard, occupying less than half a cit…

The Meridian Fold is the largest of the Lost Blocks, encompassing approximately six square blocks in the heart of the Circuit District. It is named by Dr. Sa…

The Meridian Fold is the largest of the Lost Blocks, encompassing approximately six square blocks in the heart of the Circuit District. It is named by Dr. Sa…

The Spire on Michigan Avenue casts a shadow that doesn't match its shape. At noon, when the shadow should be shortest, it stretches three blocks east and cov…

There is a street in the Narrows where every reflective surface shows a sky that is slightly different from the actual sky. Bluer. Clearer. With clouds that …

My neural implant shows me a navigation overlay of the city. Most of the time it is accurate. Once a month, for about an hour, it shows me streets that do no…

We mapped the storm drains under Geartown last year. This year they are different. Not damaged different. Different the way a face is different when someone …

You can see the block from the Spire observation deck. Fourteen stories, red brick, laundry on the lines. Walk down to street level and it's just a wall. Has…

My daughter drew a picture of our apartment. She included a door I have never seen. When I looked at the wall she drew it on, there was a faint rectangular o…

The stairwell in the parking structure goes down four levels to the underground lot. Last week it went down five. The fifth level was empty, well-lit, and wa…

I have lived in this apartment for twenty years. Last Tuesday, I found a room behind my kitchen that I have never entered. It was dusty. The dust was twenty …

We dug a foundation for the new clinic. Six meters down, we hit a sidewalk. It was clean. There were footprints in it, going in one direction. The footprints…

I counted the steps in the stairwell every day for a year. Three hundred and sixty-two days, it was forty-seven steps. Three days, it was forty-eight. Those …

The L train added a stop. It's not on the map and the announcement system just plays a tone. People get off there. They look like they know where they're goi…

Elevator in my building goes to 14. Building has 12 floors. Pressed 14 once. Doors opened to a hallway with carpeting from the 1970s and a smell like my gran…

The elevator in Building 9 goes to fourteen floors. Building 9 has twelve floors. Nobody talks about where the elevator goes when you press thirteen or fourt…

We installed a new window in the east wall. Through it, we can see the alley, the dumpsters, the fire escape across the gap. Through the old window, two mete…

The fog rolled in from the lake and the street signs changed. Just for an hour. Street names I'd never seen. Addresses that don't exist. By morning, everythi…