Sublime

“Lachrimae”

The Senator’s wife popped on latex gloves. “Actually,” she said, “I don’t think a John Doe is a missing person. I think it’s when you have the person, just not his identity.”

He read the suicide story twice against the racket of steel blades grinding single estate beans. Something rankled. There was a prolonged and dangerous-sounding hissing, and a solitary stream of espresso poured into a white cup. Edward Fellowes jumped from the bridge late on Thursday night. But there were any number of bridges along the Tyne, why w

The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein (World Pacific). With Jordan Belsen, the filmmaker, he

tortured. Another came from across the corridor, the same

rigmarole,

The nurse was a sick-looking man with grey, translucent teeth. He sucked them, audibly, as we walked. I wondered if he’d begun working here as a healthy person and then slowly absorbed the aura of madness and death surrounding him. I wondered what I was absorbing in my line of work.

When Josie wasn’t well, it could turn the color of her vomit or her pale feces, or even develop streaks of blood.