That Sschphlarths don’t like scorpions is the kind of stuff that’s nice to know before you get accidentally-on-purpose zapped across the universe to the wrong address that happens to be their neighborhood. When in Rome, and all that, for sure, but when you wake up as one of them and you know you are not [...] [...]
Beginning with “it” is just so vague. Vague is vague enough. Beginning vaguely is not too vague, but just so vague. Vague, only just so. So what. It, the story, begins vaguely. What began was not vague at all. It was a big-ass plane. Nothing vague about it. Everything big about it. How we got [...] [...]
When I woke up I could not breathe on my own. It wasn’t for lack of trying. Hoses and wires came and went in and out every conceivable hole in me. Still other holes, the inconceivable ones, oozed and soaked with the rest of me in a not-quite congealed balm, an unnaturally cool suspension in [...] [...]