“Did I let a demon in?” by Sassi Bhutto
Emptiness walked in uninvited and refused to leave. When? How? I can’t recall . . .
Emptiness walked in uninvited and refused to leave. When? How? I can’t recall . . .
If he is wearing knives for eyes, if he has dressed for a Day of the Dead parade—three-piece skeleton suit, cummerbund of ribs—his pelvic girdle will look like a Halloween mask.
“The bones,” he’ll complain, make him itch. “Each ulna a tickle.” His mandible might tingle.
He cannot stop scratching, so suggest that he change, but not because he itches—do it for the scratching. Do it for the bones . . .
We’re pleased to offer six sale packages just in time for the holiday rush!
Matty saw the asshole as soon as he climbed over the fence from Volunteer Park into Lakeview Cemetery. Butchie was waving, like an idiot, right where he had told Matty to meet him: Bruce Lee’s grave at two a.m. Like he had to wave, like there’d be anybody else but Butchie the Rat by Bruce Lee’s grave at two a.m.
He walked over to the asshole. “Where’s my cat, Butchie?”
Take advantage of gifting ebooks this holiday season with Akashic Books and Open Road Media!
Get 50% off all titles through 11:59pm Monday, 12/1/2014, using code CM14 at checkout!
Get 50% off all titles through 11:59pm Wednesday, 12/31/2014, using code HOLIDAY14 at checkout!
Get 50% off all our books—including Depeche Mode: Monument and An Unkindness of Ghosts— through 11:59pm Monday, 12/31/2018, using code BF2018 at checkout!