Paper Animals_Out of the box._In-Between_All Eyes Open
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Paper Animals
As Entrant #38267 left the small, gray cubicle, Oscar allowed himself to let out a long breath. He had one more Entrant to settle before he was able to take a break, and he was looking forward to loosening his belt and reading a few chapters from the new book he’d picked up yesterday. He could see it sitting on the small table next to his desk, a red paperback, the brightest spot of color in his otherwise muted office.There was no rest for the weary in the Department of Emigration After Death, affectionally shortened to the “DEAD” by its employees, though management tried to discourage them f...
Out of the box.
The house hunkers on its rough rocky hill, listing and tilting to its side, and as the ocean slaps at the hill, spraying fine drops in the air when it surges upwards, the house almost seems to reach for it. The house is made of windows; glass and metal and nothing else, overgrown with climbing vines and almost bare poison oak, still shedding the last of its deep red leaves. This is where my life may end. At least, the life I have lived for all of my sixteen years. The horses slow at the foot of the hill and send the lantern swinging in its post near the Ferryman’s seat. The light sways back an...
In-Between
Men sweated all around her, but Karen Fleiss felt the heat only as a pleasant baking sensation after the cool of the SUV. She knelt next to the exposed footer to read the letters printed there.SHAWNShe smiled. The name was blocked out in a childish hand, made clumsy by the drag of wet concrete. Still obscured by dirt and washed out in the high desert sun, it was surrounded by markings she couldn’t quite make out, but which seemwww.onedoor.cced to place the name at the center of an eye with spiky lashes all around. She imagined the little boy, barefoot and dirty, scratching doodles around his signature, then...
All Eyes Open
“That’s it! This is the last time I’m smoking that stuff!” screamed Mikayla as she burst into her dorm room.In front of her lay three sets of blank white, terrified faces. The bloodshot in their eyes was as red as the exit sign behind Mikayla in the hallway. The three girls dressed in mismatched sweats and baggy t-shirts from Universities they have never visited before and likely will never go to, sat there guiltily on various chairs and bunks as Mikayla exclaimed.“I can’t even throw these pizza boxes away without feeling like I have the eyes of every soul on campus staring at me while I walk...