OC Blabber
At ten past four Calvin was sitting on the edge of Leigh's bed in the dark, looking for his other sock. He found it under the chair by the window, where the blind didn't quite meet the frame and a bar of orange streetlight came through and lay across the...
Slice of Life intermission. The tomato had stayed. She had now eaten three sandwiches with it and said nothing, which Theo took as a verdict. He had moved tomato? to the top of his notes and deleted the question mark. It was the third week of August, and already hot...
The bathroom light in Calvin's flat had a buzz in it that came and went, and it was going now, a thin electric whine above the mirror like a mosquito that would not land. He had showered. He had shaved, carefully, twice along the jaw where he always missed a...
She discharged herself at dawn on the fifth day, against advice, with three cracked ribs strapped under a black hoodie and a pair of sunglasses that hid most of her face. The doctor had told her to rest for six weeks. The label had told her to have a statement...
There was no up in the place she came from. There was no down, no near or far, only the pressure, and the pressure was everything. It pressed from all sides at once and had been pressing for so long that the word long had worn away to nothing. It...
