For a moment Simon wanted to say he was sorry, feeling sticky and choked with guilt like an oil slick on a rocky shore. But he couldn’t fathom apologizing to a man that tried to kill him. Instead, he slumped over the wheel, eyes fixed on the grief and blood caught in the rearview mirror, […]
Read MoreIt kept turning. Like the world, the moon and infinite stars in a desperate sky, the wheel of their undoing was repetitive and inevitable. He felt lost in that spin, and as the man slurred his story, Simon’s grip on the steering wheel loosened as if his hands were too weak to hold on; all […]
Read More#gallery-16 { margin: auto; } #gallery-16 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-16 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-16 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ The road, swallowed by a raging son, threaded the distance from his children with long shadows, every mile […]
Read More#gallery-10 { margin: auto; } #gallery-10 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-10 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-10 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ “Daddy did the bugs hurt you?” his daughter asked. Simon reached for his neck. His fingers were stained […]
Read MoreSimon moved fast, shoving his unconscious attacker further into the backseat so his legs were no longer in the way of the door closing. Beneath the man’s head, blood pooled like spilled tar into the car’s dark backseat fabric. The lamp strikes in the hallway had done damage, but that last hit from the gun […]
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Read MoreHe asked the man, through teeth gritted as if he were trying to file them down to his gums, where the deposit was. Half payment up front, half at the end. The bleeding man on the floor couldn’t hide his surprise, the white of his wide eyes choking the brown that uncannily matched Jaimie’s. Simon […]
Read MoreHe knew the answer before his best friend’s proxy spoke shakily and told him that it was a week ago when he first talked to their puppeteers. The gun was steady as the man talked in clipped sentences, sniffing blood back into his nose and gasping as clots passed down his throat. Had he known […]
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Read More#gallery-20 { margin: auto; } #gallery-20 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-20 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-20 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Simon dropped the lamp, the cord around his attacker’s neck falling limp like sloughed snakeskin. The man gasped […]
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