He was always handing her moments out of time. Awkward ungainly moments he thrust into her arms as she struggled to catch up or slow down or stand still so that she might accommodate his timing. Their whole relationship was a small misunderstanding repeated in an endless loop, an offered handshake enveloped within an …Fictional beliance
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Lunches packed, dogs fed, paper fetched from the driveway, coffee brewed . . . she pulled her robe tight against the early-morning cold and breathed in the silence. In the few quiet moments before the life that was hers descended the stairs and engulfed her, she stared through a window obscured. The single-paned window …Fictional frost The road lay long and dry and flat, a husked snakeskin crushed beneath her tires. She reached to turn the radio down, lowered her window, listened to the crackle of the abandoned serpentine flesh as her tires met the pavement. She gave herself to the hypnosis as the snake’s patterned diamond back swayed and …Flection |
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