The Real Deal
Botha, from a big scale, was a strip of spires and steel on the planet. A metropolitan band of concrete and plastic that went both ways for a hundred miles. This, coupled with how hard it was to find natural lands not owned by private firms that...
THE BODY AS ITS OWN HOSTAGE
My nerves the orchestra none hear. Freeways of fire make me try to gnaw hands to paste. The kitchen burn that melts and cooks my skin till juice beads along my arm is nothing. Skin sizzles, I don't feel it. I feel only talons that rake my ribs,...
IN THE CITY WHERE THEY PAVED THE ROADS WITH OUR TONGUES AND TEETH
There's a body In the body: the teeth of a piano Someone has stolen the rest of the piano If our body was stolen would you run from what stood in its place: ivory keys and claws and pinions and beak and talons and fangs snarling...
You Will Hear a Bird Fall Ch.2: The Will
You never told me what happened to you when the Scissor-Tail garage used to be a brothel. I sensed, Peacock, that you kept it to yourself because you hated the idea of giving any time or power to those memories, but the memories lived in your body, I...
You Will Hear a Bird Fall Ch.3: The Wound
“Scissor-Tail Turf?” Frost said it like she tested how the words felt in her mouth. I wanted to be back at the garage with you, Tera, but I knew I needed to answer for my actions out in the Welt. I stood in the town hall, which was a large hall built...
The Laughter of Crows
“Well, I’ll tell you one thing,” Borjis said, “No critter did that.” He pointed up and our eyes all followed. Hanging from a spruce were a pair of legs comically twisting in the wind, the laces of the boots laced together to hold the limbs on the...
You Will Hear a Bird Fall Ch.4: The World
We stayed the night at the bonded settlement the day we drove up to the Cauldron together. They made their homes out of wood, thatch, and mud. Scrapped and recycled furniture existed in the settlement, but a lot of it they logged from the forest on the...