Dawn Song is a darkly erotic exploration of supernatural evil in very human circumstances. Lawrence is an invisible bookstore clerk in Boston, drawn through no choice of his own into the greatest conflict of all--a struggle for dominance between two of the most powerful devils in Hell.As the medi...
out she came on her fast legs when there were clouds and took me inside. She wasn’t mad, but she held me against her fur and her tears fell, drip! drip!, on me and I started crying too because I was bad and didn’t want to make her cry. When she saw me cry too she kissed me...
There’s a depth to your reflection missing in polished metal . . . the impossibility of an echo. You can speak your thoughts in silvered glass and know that you’re heard. The last dressing room I shared with Justine had steel mirrors, made of bulkheads from a dead country’...
I remembered and relived another moment, one of freezing cold in the midst of a bright warm summer, a moment of my taking the fair color of frost amid green meadows and barrows as I was made pale as lime-bleached skin scant days before I’d first heard the sound of a man’s eyes turning to wood. &n...
You hear them as you walk beneath halogen street-lamps that give light the color of brandy, as October air touched with frost becomes warm, heavy as breath. Your step is muffled, as if you walk on a wool blanket. The sounds come, as they have come before, while dusk deepens and stars spread acros...
I liberated her from her body, trespassing on her self-inflicted inner wound . . . doing her the favour of pulling it to the tangible. She hated her body with the spite a mother saves for an unwanted child—because her body, in its arrogance, never fit the carefully purchased fiction of her life. ...
That is why they want to break me: because I see. The theatre of stealth they enact is just that—theatre . . . designed to exhaust me, so that I forfeit my vision. I should stand from the cigarette-scarred table, walk away from their performance. But my friend is dying, and I’d sooner die than le...