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Auren Han pulls off his glasses, rubs his eyes, wants a cigarette.
That’s going, he thinks, on my tombstone. Bad Guy who tried to be good buried here. He wanted a cigarette.
He thought …
The Principle Of Moments
Past Voices in Your Head
Emma stirs, pushes at hot pillows. She can’t shut off the storm warnings banging through her head every time she rolls onto the side where she’s facing Preacher’s short wave radio antenna. It’s not the radio she’s hearing, it’s Preacher’s …
Bruised
“Come join us, Em,” Drin calls out, and Emma walks through the hotel suite towards the bath. There’s a wild gust of night-time wind sweeping through; Dance had opened every window in this corner room, heedless of the air-conditioning.
The …
Reply from Atsidi
message relayed to Susan:
They’re pried out of the burrow. You can pick them up any time.
Don’t you love it? So Biblical, Adam and Eve messing with the Serpent.
AH
Susan: Hush, this is no bible story. Baby cut …
Epitaph
Emma has bad dreams of her own–being abandoned, waking up in a hospital ER after being beat up, with no memory of the last month, and a purse emptied of everything useful. The nurses found teslamomma’s phone numbers were the …
Hints from the Choir Room
Drin makes up his mind finally when he sees something perfectly ordinary. Up in the little choir room, he sees Dance has propped up his legs on a second chair, slouching back with his arms folded, chin on his chest, …
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Dance has fallen asleep, head curled up on his arm against the passenger window of the car. His torso is twisted in that funny position again, the way he does when his lower back is hurting him.
He’s been doing …
Home Again, Jiggety-Jig
Drin gets a kick out of standing in the Metro Airport waiting area in his dark suit. He’s holding a sign emblazoned with Dance’s name in the Korean characters, and he’s pretending to be a chauffeur waiting for his pickup.…
Postcards from Friends
Tourists often get their pictures taken at the cheaper attractions, standing behind silly pictures painted on tall boards, with their heads showing through holes. This apparently gave Emma the idea of pulling off a higher-brow version of this. She has …
Tango a Deux
They’ve shared hotel rooms before. They shared this one, last night.
It’s late afternoon, and the conference-supplied bus ride back is excruciating for its lack of privacy. Dance rides on the window side, with Emma’s thigh pressing against his as …