Part IX: I Am an Orange Orange the ghost rose until he was with the clouds. A voice rang at him from a deck chair made of vapour. “Been waiting for you.” “Who are you?” “Grapefruit. Your father.” “But I’m an orange! Not a grapefruit!” “That’s not true. You are a grapefruit, always were. A […]
Adam’s Dreams of Due-Dates Part VIII
Part VIII: Fahrenheit Adam stood before a class of three hundred, his first teaching assignment for a class this big. “I first discovered the science of atmospheric anomaly via anthropogenic means in a laboratory,” he explained. “I have been studying it twelve years now, and am as convinced as anyone could be that it […]
Adam’s Dreams of Due-Dates Part VII
Part VII: Anaerobe Ever since Heart had shriveled to silence in the high humidity environment created by biogas production, his corpse had begun to rot. First came the black molds, then the white, and finally the anaerobes had marched in on their chariots of gas, corroding the glues that held Heart together. Now he […]
Adam’s Dreams of Due-Dates Part VI
Part VI: Scars are Words Too “It’s after hours, what do you want?” “I was invited! Open the door please.” “Invited by who?” “Arlene, room 312, she shares with Maddy.” “And what do you want with Arlene?” “I don’t know, she invited me!” The door buzzed. Adam went up marble steps to a […]