Sublime

deflection of her eyes,

He was obsessed with the idea that the universe was only apparently real, an illusion behind which the truth might dwell.

The Apocryphal Man had no first name, or at least, not that he could recall, and it wasn’t known whether Baxter was his name, or some kind of label like “Saddler” or “Chef.” One in an identical series of ten, he’d been known officially as Baxter #4 and was blessed with not only full colour vision but negligible senescence, meaning he aged only

predilection