Foot in the Door
There's something strangely captivating about cigarette smoke. Can't quite place it. Shapes and forms maybe. Breezes. Wind. Change. Evidence lies. People twist in the breeze of a traumatic event. But smoke, smoke always rises in the same way. Tillman...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 14 - Graceless
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. - Nicholas Sparks North watched the sun fall into a rain-stained grey through the kitchen window. He finished washing the dishes from today's flimsy excuse for a lunch and was now...
Anywhere
Alton Woods, South Minnesota December 4th 1997. Anywhere is a place. Its a time and a place and as such, it is fixed. When someone says 'anywhere', you'd better be damned sure that both you and them know where 'anywhere' is, because its always...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 12 - Two Steps Twice
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. - Rabindranath Tagore The room upstairs was dark and hot, the air conditioning unit on the windowsill turned off on account of no one being in it for the majority of the day. Liz retired...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 11 - Resident Alien
"Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead." - John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began Sarah's entire world ceased to exist sometime around two am yesterday, when it disappeared in a flurry of dizzy goodbyes and the...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 10 - Dance Me To The End Of Love Pt. 3
"It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel." - Vidal Sassoon Liz pushed her glasses up and sat down next to Michael, shooting him glances when she noticed that Sarah decided to sit opposite her. But the eagle just...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 9 - Dance Me To The End Of Love Pt. 2
"What's friendship's realest measure? I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups." - Richard Ford Sarah stood in the corner of the kitchen, periodically leaning back to eye Liz who was...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 8 - Dance Me To The End Of Love Pt. 1
**At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin** North sat cross-legged on the sofa with a controller in his paws, relaxing in preparation for an evening of what he called...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 7 - Reconsider
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. - Isaac Watts Michael paced up and down the room with an undone shirt hanging down from his shoulders while he dictated what they needed to Liz, who sat indian-style on the bed and wrote...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 6 - The Carrying Arms
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world - Leonard Cohen That night, Liz couldn't sleep to save her life. Tossing and turning, she first stuffed the pillow over her head and then back under it, unable to find a...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 5 - Sunloathe
"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence." - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Liz returned from work that day seven hours earlier. Embarrassed and cold, she had no words to describe how she felt. How could Ritter do...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 4 - It's Not The Fall That Kills You...
All my lies are always wishes, I know I would die if I could come back new - Wilco, Ashes of American Flags Five hours they waited for any news. From a distance they watched as Michael was wheeled off into the X-Ray department. Liz kept switching...