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III. Daylight: Charlie

I wake in softness. Feathers cradle me below; feathers warm me above. I think I'm in heaven, but then my eyes open on M's guest room, looking just the same as it had the night before.

How many nights before?

I stretch and feel fine. I poke my feet out from the ( Read more... )

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I. Daylight: M

Deliverance delivers me to a three-story brick Victorian.  It used to be beautiful, but it's spent decades crumbling into the cracked 1950's slum buildings to either side of it.  The neighborhood feels dense with history and that makes me nervous.  I step out of the taxi but nothing happens, despite the ( Read more... )

I. Daylight: Serena and Deliverance

Wee hours of the morning, rain pelting. My feet, bare and bloody on the gravel at the side of the road. I'm wearing the sodden, matted bathrobe and flimsy pajamas I'd walked out in, because I don't have real clothes anymore. Or, if I do, I don't know where to find them. The pale of the moon glows beyond the ( Read more... )