A young girl earns the toughened skin on the soles of her feet during a summer in the Rockies, and comes face to face with “The Lady of the Lake.” At the start of the AIDS crisis, a ballet dancer reckons with mortality in “The Last Death.” And a fading cinema heartthrob contends with Ol’ Blue Eyes, a cunning starlet, and his long-suffering agent, over a weekend in Palm Springs, in “Oh Yes, Dr. No.” A despised tycoon descends to the acid-rain layer of the city to visit the fortune teller and forestall his own death. A witch rides the Boston T with a raven on her knee. A lovesick crafter steals glitter to complete an homage to his favorite rapper. And somewhere in space, floating above all these Earth-bound characters, the inimitable Tommy Stardust procrastinates on his follow-up novel, hiding in imaginings of that most perfect of decades, the 1970s, ignoring the odd spiders weaving a web in his spaceship…

Thank you to photographer @lydkagram!