Pax is underwater, hundreds of feet below. It’s dark around him, but he sees, far and away, the light shining above the surface. An illuminated ellipse. Rippling. Pax could go there. He could swim up. Break through. Feel the warm sun on his skin. But he is stuck. He’s not drowning, but he’s sunken, heavy […]
Georgia’s antennas were made of the finest silver. They picked up the tiniest of signals, vibrated at the faintest of sounds. Georgia would set herself up in the grass on her front lawn and pick up whatever she could from the people walking by. And there were lots. Lots of people, and lots of things […]
The doorbell stuck. She pushed it deeper until it popped back out. A ding dong resonated from inside, followed by steps thumping towards her. A top lock was jiggered. Good, she thought. Extra safety. The smell of cigarette smoke and old bacon wafted out as the door was pulled open. A chubby man stood squinting […]
“Stop eating the leaves, Stan!” Stan stopped chewing and turned to look at me, torn pages dangling from his mouth. “I should have know you’d be trouble,” I said, flipping through the accounting records. “It’s been a rough few months, we’ll have to close if we keep this up. We need to draw more people.” […]
The words hurt today it hurts to pick out what to wear it hurts to raise my cup to my mouth it hurts to leave the lair I come back and sit with my dirt it coats the coffee table it coats the armchair it coats every inch of my skin and every single hair […]
