He knows the end is near when he begins to dream of himself as he is, rather than as he was. No more dreams of bounding through the woods, rows of trees admiring his movement and cheering as he passes.
Alright Mumma, I’ll give you a hug. You take my daylight from me, you take my body from me, and now you take my friend from me. But you’re that one habit I just can’t seem to kick.
Did he follow her around like a puppy? Watch over her? Do everything for her? Think of everything for her, but not really everything, only the things he could imagine? Perhaps she liked it for a while, and then didn’t.
The mushroom cloud bloomed in malignant symmetry. Luna City, twenty million people, gone. Across the conference table, Kev let out a gasp. Beside me, Cierra sobbed uncontrollably and bowed her head.
He took a bite of Mrs. Higginbottom’s cheese scone—it was magnificent, robust, and slightly stale—and then he began to laugh, a loud, raw sound that was immediately swallowed by the perfect, liberating silence of the winter storm.
Disoriented, the albino bull looked back. Shadows hovered like ghosts in a harrowing dream. Some seemed to pass through him. He twitched. It awakened in him a distant memory he had no desire to know.
Dizzied and calmed, Justin resized the browser window and opened a new one, arranging them side-by-side. He began shopping for Stingray Corvettes with one eye while monitoring the pump.fun dashboard with the other.
The first warning is when she responds with questions in response to statements. The first time it had happened, I’d answered them patiently, even though her tone was strange—frankly it was rude and detached, with the trappings of analytics covering a core of malice.
He shut his eyes a moment, mulling over a rational explanation in case he had to tell his brother why he had never gone to see him or called him in so many stinking years.
My act is slipping. My “professionalism,” as they call it. Honestly, that’s just it: an act. Medical schools work hard to prepare you for the great art of customer service that medicine really is.
