slapdashmonuments

Smoothing away soil, I caressed it; the eye followed me, studied me, compelled me faster.

Burrowing tenderly with my hands, I could but adore this beast that had summoned me.

The sudden daylight and air seemed to revive the being; the mental ringing increased shrilly.

After digging all day yesterday and into this morning, I found it, 76 feet down.

Her laughter broke the silence.

Ed knew, at the sound, what had been lost; what could never be recov…

And now, like a spirit, your voice rings once more


How confusing to put them together:


Your voice,…

You were so sure I'd wronged you, you'd made me believe

It was surely my fault; but then, how?


All …

I never understood what I'd done that was wrong,


Why you exiled me thus from my life.

Was it someth…

His ragged breath jagged on, each with an untimed pause preceding it. He stared down at the pulpy me…

The boss connected with the body and swung upward again, a ripple of spray shooting out across the h…

She sounded flutelike and echoey due to the hollow head that covered her damaged, slightly mushy one…

The face of the mask was ruined, of course, too, and steeped in sap. There was little hope it could …

Her poor body, weakened already by the roughness of the routine, gave way and was pinioned on the in…

The first leap was difficult. It was hard on her legs, for one thing, but she saulted backwards with…

This could not last long. She'd known that even before the last cartoon had started. Time tapered to…