A Dark and Drowning Tide

by Allison Saft

What would you and I be doing together in the middle of the night?” No, she would not dignify that with an answer. Something so horrible did not bear consideration.

“I really shouldn’t say anything.” His tone indicated he fully intended to say something.

She refused to be uninformed in her hatred.

“You’re changing the subject again.” “You surely don’t expect me to move past the exorcism so quickly.

Best to go first and plummet to her death unbothered.

Skin isn’t so different from shoe leathers.”

“Forgive me. I think I might’ve suffered lasting brain damage from my strangulation.”

“One word from you, and I shall be the happiest woman in the universe.” “What.” “Not that one,”