Umwelt: Darkness Flows Like A River Episode 22: Pretty Breaking Noises

Solomon takes the pub with him when he leaves. The walls fading around him like smoke. The arrogant lurch of Nelbottom’s spire popping back into existence, sudden as a teenager’s erection. The persistent babble of chatter becoming the soft coo of doves and the distant screech of gulls. Between Leek and Kitty, Margo’s prone figure hugs the shit-pebbled paving stones. Shrunken somehow. Curled in on herself like a foetus. Reduced by whatever pain she endured to a shadow of herself, at least for...