Intercepts

by T.J. Payne

dams and dykes and levees and locks

the four horsemen

It wasn’t that he worked hard instead of being a good father; he was a good father because he worked so hard.

Perhaps the key to making the squeak go away was simply to slow down.

and SLAMMED it

why is this word in all caps?? who approved this

She lifted his entire skull through her vice-grip on his eye sockets,

brutal

that it was his own blood and flesh being carved out of his body.

omffffff

the fleshy Hawaiian-shirt-covered torso

it was nice of them to leave his shirt on while dismembering him

They had shredded his shirt from the back and ripped out sections of spine and rib, then flung those around.

nvm

Hawaiian-shirt-flesh.

band name idea

Dislodged fingernails lay at the base of some of the doors.

SICK

Was it all in his head?

omfg ive been duped

It had been real.

huh what is happening

Pain such as the pain of watching your family suffer. And the pain of knowing they suffered because of you. That pain will never leave,”