“must represent the governess for, of course, the creature itsel… could not inspire such terror.” staring at me fixedly, no trace of recognition.

The doll told me to exist. It said, “Hypnotize yourself.” It said time would be transfixed.

A career in vestige management. A dream job back—engineering shifts in salience. I’m so far

A merchant is probing for us with his chintz curtain effect. *

If sadness is akin to patience, we’re back! Pattern recognition was our first response

Ventriloquy is the mother tongue. Can you colonize rejection by phrasing your request, “Me want?”

So these are the hills of home. H… nearly subliminal. To see them is… double, hear bad puns delivered wi… An untoward familiarity. Rising from my sleep, the road is…

Sad, fat boy in pirate hat. Long, old, dented, copper—colored Ford. How many traits must a thing have

You may “have” sex— but those round sink—holes beneath the off—ramps, scabbed with whatever

It’s as if we’ve just been turned… in order to learn that the beetle we’ve caught and are now devouring is our elder brother

Discomfort marks the boundary. One early symptom was the boundary… The invention of hunger. I could use energy. To serve.

We know the story. She turns back to find her trail devoured by birds. The years; the