‘History has pegged ‘The Constellation Field’ as the same sort of difficult, but isolated, phenomenon as ‘The Bermuda Triangle.’ It’s historically difficult to navigate in and out of if one’s basis for navigation is the sky which, thankfully, is rarely the case anymore. And we would venture to say that the average American is so wildly out of touch with a clear night sky that the majority might not notice a difference. Not immediately. 

But Orion is missing, his belt seemingly dispersed. The North Star pulses well into the south and the ursas are combined into a creature even less likely than bears. The moon takes on a particular color when viewed from ‘The Constellation Field,’ its edges ultraviolet in a way that makes it appear lifted from the dark. Closer. It isn’t an illusion. The teeth of gaping onlookers glow in that light.

Some have attempted to establish a new set of constellations to be found exclusively in ‘The Constellation Field,’ but the ideas are largely drawn from the darker aspects of Alice in Wonderland and few have fully bought in, finding the whole proposition a little cheesy. A little embarrassing. One can’t help but see where they’re coming from, however. It isn’t so much that the stars in ‘The Constellation Field’ are wrong, but no astrophysicist has ever stood in the grass there and walked away thinking they were right either.’

-an excerpt, Autumn by the Wayside