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The tiger didn’t watch anyone, didn’t see their phones being pulled out of back pockets, didn’t see a mother gasp and hold her child back, didn’t even see the car that slammed its brakes to avoid entering the same row as the tiger. The tiger simply walked across the Target parking lot, as if it […]

Don’t open your eyes. Don’t let them see where you’re going or what you’re about to do. In the darkness, let them think you’re still asleep in your apartment. Don’t wonder if anyone’s watching as Cygna guides you, hand in hand, down the long staircase into the bowels of the city. The metro is full […]

He wonders if the bed springs know that they are different things from the springs in his body that clench and unclench throughout the night, instinctive in a helpless attempt to roll himself away from the fire burning in each of his bones. It’s the left side, hip to ankle, shoulder to ribs. He thinks […]

The Cost  Your mother refuses to mention the costs associated with this trip. It is your 16th birthday and the first you’ve celebrated with more than a cake and the same, flickering e-candle. She greets every new experience like a test of will and haggles with the taxi driver to get to the spaceport. He […]

Chapter Two My father had been obsessed with making sure I knew how to tell when and where an animal had been. When he was whipping his little Toyota truck, which he lovingly called The Yoda, up the side of a mountain, speeding around corners with no guard rails, he’d screech to a stop next […]

The scryer was dead. The rusty bullet hole in the center of his forehead confirmed it. That, and his serene milky gaze into nowhere, the small smile on his blueing lips as if finally confirmed, in his final moments, of something long suspected. “What’s the prognosis?” Damon was only half paying attention, standing to the […]