Category: fiction

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Why build here? Henges, at least, had some logic if you wanted to mark the soltices or the equinox, but the great nothing around us gave no clues. Ground radar said nothing was buried in the colonnade or some distance beyond. No bodies, if such a thing existed here.

I woke up in my bed with a kitten I didn’t know curled up in my neck.

Great, I thought. I have a cat.

I woke up in a bed, drenched in seawater. The salt stung the lacerations on my wrists and ankles. My lips felt huge and dry, and the the itching of my scalp made me scratch vigourously.

The dog barked. In the circle of light from the outside lantern, I could see her standing at the egde of the circle, tail up and ears perked at something in the void beyond the trailer. The season for bears was over.