He barely opened his eyes, even when food was pushed toward him. The food was always the same, smelling of a long fermentation with decay, and often he would try to aim the ensuing fecal fluids at the single drain in the floor.
From repeatedly squeezing his eyes, WV damaged his sight. His condition worsened, an extreme blephorspasm that forced his eyes permanently shut so he could no longer see to paint.
She wraps her arms around herself and stomps her feet to shake the ice from her toes, but it doesn’t work. The girl wonders how far she has walked in the past months.
If the man he had driven was a ghost, what about the cat? It had vanished once inside the house and never reappeared. He had heard countless stories of wronged spirits lingering among the living, but never a ghost story about a pet.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you a statement of reassurance to the American public. America has not fallen. I repeat: America has not fallen.
Wawh’s homeland was on the edge of the sunlit world. Translucent people had reduced Wahw's place of origin to a destitute hellhole; they had blown it up with cannons to turn it into a void.
The full-size gold crown on her head was customary among the privileged class of ultra-rich at these events. Her figure and perky smile had earned her wealth, status, this very spot and now the attention of the thousands in the room and a billion screens beyond.
Janette didn’t understand, and she didn’t approve. She had told me as much two nights ago, when I had crawled into bed at three o’clock in the morning. “Just so you know, I don’t like this,” she said. “I’m not enjoying any of it.”
She did not dare admit that she never considered ceiling repair a political act. She had never thought about the restorers who intentionally left the Russian bullet holes in the National Museum. She had never even cared.
The nerve of these negatives to claim to be real numbers like us. Why, in my day we never even heard of them. But there they go, moving into our neighborhood, brazenly carrying their minus signs in front of them like it’s a badge of honor.
