Leave the World Behind

tacit

implacable,

tumescent.

army of them, alternate versions of the children they already had, pink and clean and healthy and strong, a new world order because the old world was so out of order. Amanda propped herself up on her elbows. The stuff slid down her like a snail on a sedge, onto that beautiful white duvet. Clay was out of breath. Fucking her like that was like infla

The rain was as it always was: hesitant at first, then confident.

PALLIATIVE.

maudlin

Whatever they thought they’d understood was not wrong but irrelevant.

argot