by talysin | Apr 27, 2025 | Fiction
Chapter 6 Daniels rubs at his eyes, his knuckles dry and stained with tobacco. His mind is slow and woolly, drifting through thoughts like soup. The furniture looks old and ratty in the flickering light, just shapes collapsing into other shapes, like everything else...
by talysin | Apr 27, 2025 | Fiction
Chapter 5 Jesse isn’t standing, isn’t fighting. He’s slumping, slipping, disappearing into a tar-pit of wet, stinking blackness. He kicks, breathes, screams — but everything is soaked, slowed, swallowed. He can feel the mattress pulling him down, pulling him under. No...
by talysin | Apr 27, 2025 | Fiction
Chapter Four He throws his shoulder into the door, breath in ragged bursts, feet skidding against sticky motel carpet. The handle refuses to turn; the deadbolt, once stiff, is soft and spongy now, like the door itself is rotting in his hands. He can hear the goddamn...
by talysin | Apr 27, 2025 | Fiction
Chapter Three His fingers scrabble against the light switch. Nothing. Darkness oozes into his mouth, up his nose. The neon sign bleeds one last breath of red through the grimy blinds, then flickers, dies. No light, no mercy. Just the night expanding into a long,...
by talysin | Apr 27, 2025 | Fiction
Chapter 1 The night is a velvet black hole, a vacuum swallowing headlights and spilling them useless into the desert. Jesse grips the wheel like it’s the only thing keeping him alive, which maybe it is. A shift in the seat that doesn’t help the pain in his back, a...
