An Invincible Summer Ch. 1 - Moving in
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot They had been unloading boxes all morning. It was hard, unrewarding work, especially when...
Anywhere
Alton Woods, South Minnesota December 4th 1997. Anywhere is a place. Its a time and a place and as such, it is fixed. When someone says 'anywhere', you'd better be damned sure that both you and them know where 'anywhere' is, because its always...
Foot in the Door
There's something strangely captivating about cigarette smoke. Can't quite place it. Shapes and forms maybe. Breezes. Wind. Change. Evidence lies. People twist in the breeze of a traumatic event. But smoke, smoke always rises in the same way. Tillman...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 10 - Dance Me To The End Of Love Pt. 3
"It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel." - Vidal Sassoon Liz pushed her glasses up and sat down next to Michael, shooting him glances when she noticed that Sarah decided to sit opposite her. But the eagle just...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 9 - Dance Me To The End Of Love Pt. 2
"What's friendship's realest measure? I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups." - Richard Ford Sarah stood in the corner of the kitchen, periodically leaning back to eye Liz who was...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 11 - Resident Alien
"Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead." - John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began Sarah's entire world ceased to exist sometime around two am yesterday, when it disappeared in a flurry of dizzy goodbyes and the...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 8 - Dance Me To The End Of Love Pt. 1
**At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin** North sat cross-legged on the sofa with a controller in his paws, relaxing in preparation for an evening of what he called...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 2 - The Lines Have Been Drawn
Fifteen minutes later, both Michael and his new roommate were sitting at the dining room table, the latter smoking her cigar and drinking one very strong glass of Brandy. Michael said nothing for a long time, settling instead for keenly observing the...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 3 - The Definition of Insanity
"Love does not request, love provides" - Norbert Harms Commander North was having one hell of a time. Russian fighters were hitting them from all sides, puffs of black smoke exploding all around the aircraft. Their carrier was already severely...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 4 - It's Not The Fall That Kills You...
All my lies are always wishes, I know I would die if I could come back new - Wilco, Ashes of American Flags Five hours they waited for any news. From a distance they watched as Michael was wheeled off into the X-Ray department. Liz kept switching...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 12 - Two Steps Twice
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. - Rabindranath Tagore The room upstairs was dark and hot, the air conditioning unit on the windowsill turned off on account of no one being in it for the majority of the day. Liz retired...
An Invincible Summer Ch. 5 - Sunloathe
"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence." - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Liz returned from work that day seven hours earlier. Embarrassed and cold, she had no words to describe how she felt. How could Ritter do...