When innermost thoughts and feelings are laid bare, you must face the truth.
“ Do you know what happens when you stare into television static? ”
“I don’t have a television.”
“ Christ! That’s right, I’m sorry. You know, I could get you one. It’d be no problem. Actually, it would be a bit of a problem—no electricity, zero reception—but I could sort something out. I could make it work. ”
“I’m good, my eyes have long since deflated and now sit folded like rotting sheets in the fouled cup of their sockets, anyhow.”
“ Wow... ”
“What?”
“ Just you’re... um, very descriptive. ”
“Well, I have had a long time to sit here and paint the things that I cannot see.”
“ Do they hurt? Your eyes? Do you hurt? ”
“Nothing hurts. Nothing is anything, not anymore. But you know that.”
Supernatural thriller from Hari Navarro. Dialogue competition winner.
