Fiction
The Gibeon Sun by Joshua Thusat
The bear…seemed part of him, a projection, and then it seemed bigger than him too, the universe.
The bear…seemed part of him, a projection, and then it seemed bigger than him too, the universe.
“Stop, stop!” they both say. Their voices are as hopeful as the words written on our flash cards. I do not stop.
Look how we adjust to such up and leaving. Though I remember porcelain, soil, less flesh, I have to reach backward to do so.
Between the drifts whitetail outline a broken geometry— a pattern like the glyphs that guide a woman’s scissors
Cul de sac is a French term meaning bottom of the bag—you know that from when you worked as a translator. It also means there’s only one exit, one way out.