On the bench Lia pinched her eyes.She exhaled and she said, ”Six o’clock or something?””However long you need.”Lia went over to catch and collar her son. ”Téo will be watching you today,” she explained. She knelt. ”And you watch out for Téo, yeah? Help him. Remember what we always say.””Because is grown-ups,” Joel tried.He hooked […]

”It’s hard. It’s really, really hard.” Why didn’t she have more words? She thought of the Nothing. The ghost girl’s orange teeth. She thought of doors slammed. The bright blur of her mother’s cooking in a trashcan now long since rotted in some suburb. She thought of the flashes of something bigger and brighter than […]