In the Eyes In the Shadows

by Gage Greenwood

In his chest, a truck hit a corner too quickly, tottered up on two wheels, and hung there.

Senior's muscles had deteriorated, leaving his skin to stretch around the bone like plastic wrap.

Marybeth remained a step behind Jackson, clinging to the wall like plastic wrap. She kept her arms straight down and her hands planted along the wall, trying to show her ability to stay out of the way, but Jackson thought she very much was in the way. He wanted to throw her out the window and roll her into the woods, wrap her up in a box made from twigs, and mail her to Zimbabwe. When she arrived, he would mail her a letter that said: Now you are out of the way.

"Anyone can make a comeback," Ray said, still trying to inspire. You should have told that to my father, Jackson thought.