Equinox
**Equinox** By: Rufus Quentin For: Kibbles~and~bits The husky's nose darted towards the front door, his ears perked in perception of a rattling lock disturbing the perfect early afternoon placidity. He hadn't expected anyone home for hours. A rush...
The Skylark
The Skylark By: Rufus Quentin It was a rare kind of morning in which the ambient drone of the swamp unit didn't have to stifle the kitchen with its incessant hum. Peter, Paul, and Mary could play in comparative clarity on the old Phillips by the...
On the way to Milan
On the way to Milan By: Rufus Quentin Yellow morning sunshine filtered through the arched glass ceiling of the old train station and cast a quadrilateral grid of light upon the platforms. Dust scintillated as it passed through the rays which appeared...
Café Desgrais
_Café Desgrais_ By: Rufus Quintin The patrons of _Café Desgrais_ were perhaps more raucous than usual, he thought, holding an inelegant chalice of _Petit Orval_ to his lips. It was a shame, he thought, that only one such establishment existed in all...
Addiction - Chapter Six: Pavlov's Dog
Addiction Chapter Six Pavlov's Dog By: Rufus Quentin September, 1998 So I came home from an afternoon at Bryn's to find an unlabeled cardboard box waiting for me on my bed. What's this, I thought to myself, approaching what looked like might have...
Addiction - Chapter Three: Mr. Death's Head
Addiction Chapter Three Mr. Death's Head By: Rufus Quentin September 10-12, 1998 It was sad but true. A week after school started it felt as if the summer never happened. I walked through the halls of my high school as if I hadn't left them for...
Addiction - Chapter Two: One hundred seventy-nine
Addiction Chapter Two One hundred seventy-nine By: Rufus Quentin September 1, 1998 It was far worse than we thought. As soon as the diagnosis came in, I knew things would be bad, but this exceeded my expectations. Nothing could have prepared us...
Addiction - Chapter Seven: The Discarded
**Addiction** Chapter Seven The Discarded By: Rufus Quentin September, 1998 "Severe cranial injury" was all I could think of as I rode on our neighbor's 4-wheeler, clinging to my brother for dear life with my entire body practically wrapped...
Addiction - Chapter Five: Southern Boredom
Addiction Chapter Five Southern Boredom By: Rufus Quentin November, 1989 I think I owe an apology to anyone who knew me before I turned eighteen. I went through the phases of snot-maggot, tag-along, nuisance, and most recently, bitch. I feel...
Addiction - Chapter Four: Scar Tissue
Addiction Chapter Four Scar Tissue By: Rufus Quentin September 16, 1998 Dustin burst into the kitchen on a warm afternoon in mid-September heaving a heavy cardboard box which he promptly and gracelessly let crash onto the breakfast nook table. I...
Navigating the Labyrinth
Navigating the Labyrinth Chapter One By: Rufus Quintin For: Vickfox The electric buzz of an incoming message arrived far earlier than expected, arousing Victor from the spread of notes and textbooks splayed upon the desk, that thus far only...
Addiction - Chapter Eight: Rules are meant to be broken
**Addiction** Chapter Eight Rules are made to be broken By: Rufus Quentin Late September, 1998 As we'd agreed Amanda picked me up from school and drove the both of us to the Yardage Outlet in the outskirts of Huntington. It flattered me enough...