The hairs on my arm stood up when I heard the transmission over his radio, “Call haz-mat, this one is well past stage 3.”

What they couldn’t explain were the hundreds of fingernail grooves carved into the stone around the entrance, from the outside.

Apparently, all I needed was some exercise.

After what felt like years the patch note appeared in the sky, “Self-awareness anomaly: remediation in progress,” and I could feel myself starting to forget why that was terrifying.

When I asked her why she said that, she replied that she was only reading the braille on my skin.

I bent to pick it up, then froze when I saw my own name engraved inside my husband’s wedding band.

That's why I became an airline pilot.

As Sercurity escorted him from the premises, I turned back to my drink, failing to notice the sinking ice.

know that it's not just a salesman I live in the middle of nowhere

They had been parked on the seaside cliffs for a week.

You can only imagine my excitement when the sky started whistling

He couldn't find the problem, but as he turned to get out he found himself trapped under the truck with metal beams, lines, and pipes spreading endlessly in every direction.

A friend of mine just killed himself spouting off some mumbo jumbo nonsense about people inserting male genitalia inside female genitalia in order to "reproduce".

Over 20 years later that cousin doesn’t speak to me and I don’t remember anything past stepping into his RV.

I watched them bury that ring with my husband two years ago.

We found out later that the therapist we fired last week had made the call because we weren’t starving the autism out of her.

Later that night, an armed burglar broke in, not knowing that the doll was going to keep its promise.

As he fell to the floor holding his abdomen and writhing in pain, I explained that me carrying the baby wasn’t what I’d been trying to avoid. 

I woke up screaming-ing-ing, hearing billions of overlapping voices—all mine mine mineminemine: as the Internet.

The doctor refused, saying, “We tried that with the first twelve your body is the only one that learned how to keep screaming.”

As I take in for the millionth time the scarred and printless tips of those fingers, I recognize that one's "very best" can still be disastrous.

Until a particularly dark day the rain
smelled strangely metallic.

This was odd as i thought that she loved David.

Instead I ate them because "out of sight, out of mind."