Motel Styx

by Michelle von Eschen

You were always saying you wanted me to toughen up, to grow a pair, to stop wasting my life. I tried so hard to be who you wanted. I changed and gave up so much. I loved you, Ellis. I still love you, but last month broke me and there’s no coming back from it. I’m done trying. Don’t come looking for me.

what is this, Silent Hill?

“Death is never easy to face, but it’s the only certainty we have.

A glance at Camila’s stomach reveals a gaping red crater where, for some unfathomable reason, her feet have been planted, toes poking from the hole like grubs emerging from a nest.

Damien is doomed. Damien is as good as dead. Part of Damien’s bowel has been tugged from his body and nailed to the chair.

Oh

Ellis huffs. “Mom was right about you. You don’t even know how lucky you were to have me. A lot of men would have been far tougher on you, so why, Em? Why would you do this?” As she had in life, Emeley says nothing in reply—but he hears her loud and clear.

is he fr negging a corpse rn