Stand to attention. Show no emotion. Salute. Give the state your best blank-eyed stare. Kneel when ordered. Rise when ordered. Turn when ordered. Kill when commanded. Expire when expedient. Place your possessions in their metal safe. Turn into a number in a sea of similarity, of upturned faces, of regulation uniforms, of beatific smile upon […]
She whispers to his naked form. Standing over him, pressing her worn and wrinkled heel into his forehead, pushing too hard against his skin and flimsy bone. Her mind is fuzzed by the guttural wrench of the voice she stole on an autumn afternoon, ripped from the throat of some singing, snorting drunkard in exchange […]
Prescription: care. Take it when baring your soul. You swallow the sugar-coated tablets readily enough with a glass of lukewarm water, each placed fresh every morning on your grateful tongue, when you are fighting fierce to protect your inner core from the harmful effects of mere existence. Thus, you must increase the dosage all the […]
I have been trying to decide whether we would drink coffee, tea or something stronger. Caffeine addict that I am, the temptation would be to serve extra strong coffee and then gabble away nineteen to the dozen until deep into the night, only retreating to our beds at dawn once we had revealed far too […]
I stutter and tumble over the words. There’s nothing strange about you. Nothing strange about me. We’re just like each other. Peas in a pod. Hand in glove. Birds of a feather. What am I saying? Link fingers and dance with me, why don’t you? I feel everything when you’re broken, just as you do when […]
No, you stand corrected. This isn’t our world. This is much more. This is our universe. You just don’t realise it. We outnumber you by at least ten to one — it’s just that we keep very quiet about that fact. We refuse to subscribe to your way of thinking, but we do so in […]