FICTION
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
Ever since your son brought you here, things have been different. He was crying when he dropped you off. You still don’t know why.
Directly after the arrival of the Armada, this model made sense, as the gap between Unthulanian and Human cultures prevented a commensurable exchange of practices…
The day does not conclude with the gentle exhale of the earth, but with Mother Superior flipping the hourglass over, again.
To be encased, Clint had always thought, was foolishness. Why allow yourself to be open to such sorrow?
He used to hold my hand on Commonwealth. I wonder sometimes if he ever still thinks about my mouth.
My new neighbor is making a violin from a cigar box. He got the cigar box from a guard. The guard, presumably, got it from outside the Fence.
I loved Rena as much as a patient could love their gynecologist. We had tea together in her office. I cried when she asked how I was doing, and she showed me pictures of her terriers.
and on and on and on and on they ran, the Merry Men, running from a hundred and one arrows bought with taxes stolen twice over…
A tortured simper uncoils itself across my mouth as I open another bottle of Penis wine.
It all started with the curse of my tits. Women’s bodies are cursed. Everyone tries to look at them, everyone tries to ignore them.
It was spring and the hills were irradient, like they had to get out all their green in one short burst before catching fire.
And then he feels that familiar sensation of drifting—when his body untethers from the material world and he soon dissolves into a fine, floating mist that evaporates into the atmosphere.
Darkness always follows.
A man with a fistful of showbags said, “That cow sounds like a person trying to sound like a cow.”
When I was on earth I was a pretty good kid. I only got drunk when I needed to get drunk.
Mama sped along the highway, unbothered by bits of gravel that flew up from the front tires and struck the windshield of the sedan.
Share some abandon.
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