For many years I thought this story was lost to me forever. It first appeared almost three decades ago in a fanzine, and my only copy had vanished. Neither was there a manuscript left. And then, a miracle. An idle, half-hopeless Google search revealed that someone had scanned the fanzine and put it online! And so I was able to reclaim my long-lost tale.
My inspiration at the time of composition was the supremely weird music of Brian Eno, and the visions it conjured. I never generally write plotless stories, and it felt fun to work in that mode. I seem to recall that Italo Calvino was also riding my shoulder.