First Encounters (ICI 1)
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Tag: Prose
The Machines Beeped and Wheezed
The nurse presented her with the papers. “Would you like to pull the plug now?” She met her husband’s trembling eyes and watched his agony. “No.”
Sleepless
Another sleepless night where i’m rolling in my bed, thinking of you a body, a mind, a soul who doesn’t exist Or did you? You came as you went and though I promised I wouldn’t I fell in love And now i’m laying here tossing and turning wondering if you were real or not thoughts […]
Rule Number Three
I don’t like the way you’re smiling at me, Sigmund…
The Coming of the Conqueror: The Dark Between the Stars
“They’re coming!” Jona screamed. “The end is near!” Jona ranted on the streets of Seal Beach. He used to be healthy but now he was too thin and he hadn’t shaved in a month. He kept the same clothes on and didn’t bother bathing. He was vigilant in getting his message out. He wrote a […]
“Sir Henry Barker”
“That god damned dog gettin’ up under the house again!”
My Cat is at The Door
Watching me with big, green eyes. She is backlit by the kitchen light and I lay in the dark of my room. Usually she purrs but this time she isn’t. Her gaze is intense. Focused. She growls and her hair stands on end. I feel movement in my bed, a shifting behind me. My cat […]
“Mary”
Mary called me at some ungodly hour of the night. I can’t complain—she’s my girlfriend. “Jasmine?” she said. I could hear the tears over the phone. I was used to it. Another one of her break downs. “What’s wrong, babe?” “I’m just tired of all this shit.” I guess she meant her quiet life, in […]
“Escape”
“I’m not going to die here.”
Angel of Agony
She runs across the fields, roiling clouds above her head. She knows the storm is here. She can smell it in the air. The grass beneath her feet is oddly soft against her skin but she wants it to cut, she wants it to hurt. She runs, chest heaving, heart pounding, she can barely get […]
Zo Grimmwood 