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I leaned against the back wall of the barber shop, staring over the top of Nell’s head at my own reflection. Nell turned around in the chair, looking worried. “Are you sure you’re okay?” I roused myself and uncrossed my arms. “Yeah. Yeah, I’m okay.” Henry took Nell’s shoulders and turned her back around in […]

I was getting desperate. A quick sweeping search of the dance floor had turned up nothing. No new corpses, no half a person with something else filling in the other side. I was in the process of asking all the bouncers if they’d seen anything weird leave the nightclub. The latest of which was a

The Aberrant remained unsteady on its feet, like a newly birthed calf, its thin needlepoint limb unable to retain traction, skittering and scratching against the hard floor. We were frozen, staring at each other, like we were unsure of which one of us was the predator and which was the prey. The scratching felt like

Sullivan’s bodyguards parted the gyrating masses, clearing a path that only stayed open for a few moments. Limbs covered in golden body glitter brushed up against me as the strobing lights allowed only the briefest moments of unintentional eye contact from the dancing club goers before being replaced by some other person, as if the

After we said our goodbyes to the others, Nell and I took a stroll around campus as I tried to explain a TV show that Kay had mentioned at lunch. “So they’re constantly being watched?” Nell asked incredulously. “They sign up for this?” “That’s the impression I got,” I said, realizing that this line of

I lay in bed, alternating between scrolling on my phone and creating tiny growths of antler out of my arm. Nip, my cat, would wiggle his butt, pupils growing large before pouncing at the growth. I would quickly pull the branch back in and he would bat at the spot where they had vanished. There