The carbon dioxide leaving his lungs seemed to take up space.

Surreal was the only word for it, he had to keep breathing, every gasp continually reminding him that he must be somewhere.

No up, no down.

In attempt to silence the growing paranoia, he knelt to his feet and was mortified as his fingers reached lower than where he “stood”

Blink as much or as little as he pleased there was no diffe...

6 o’clock.

I was still in bed, Listeria could sing her heart out for all I cared; I was going to get my 12 hours.

Maybe this was my fault for being cheap but how was I supposed to know there’d be any real difference between the 50 den siren and the 35–their bowls looked exactly the same.

Marketing failure.

It doesn’t much matter now that I’m late for the third time this month, today might jus...

Left. Right. Left. Right.

Each step was wide, toes spread deep in the sand but no body attached to them, not a soul was there but me. I had staked out the spot for hours, watching from a near by ridge, from which I still stood now, and not a soul was there but me.

Regardless, the steps continued, Left. Right. Left. Right. Like a soldiers march, on time and in step.

The water licked at the neare...

I saw it yesterday, maybe the whole package too.

I’m not sure what/how the whole clothes/covering situation works for creature-y beings and honestly, I don’t really want to know. This entire thing is freaking me out.

I just about lost it, couldn’t even tell what it had been, rancid and rotten and raw—and it was eating it.

_Ravenous._

There I was, innocently walking outside my own house and I’d...

I knew.

I knew the moment the words left my mouth that they should never have been said. They should’ve been bottled up and thrown into the nearest lake.

I should throw myself into the nearest lake.

He could smile and look perfect all he liked, I knew. Even as he spoke of gratitude and happiness I knew all the while that this was very last thing that would ever be so much as a possibility to hi...

Her throat was dry from singing—singing and then humming as the hours passed. The same tune over and over again, just as he had directed, yet the horizon had still remained completely out of view.

Beside her, touching the hem of nightgowns the grass waved in the breeze tickling her feet as she walked by. Step after step note after note , the fog did not lift. Surely she couldn’t sing forever.

He...

I could not hate myself anymore than I did right then as I paddled for my life.

Between the mosquitoes dancing in out of my ears, the thick wood threatening to slip out of my hands, and my complete ignorance of how to steer at all, I had more than once contemplated simply letting it happen.

My arms were burning something awful and I was sure I was going nowhere. Somehow my heart managed to sink ...

The drumbeat tapped incessantly fading in and out of timing with that of my heart.

They were still screaming.

I watched as each drop sizzled and bore straight through before collecting on the ground.

They wriggled and fought against the restrains in vain.

The lightshow continued above, flashes of pinks and greens as the sky folded in on itself, lightning splitting it in two.

I watched the di...