A House With Good Bones

by T. Kingfisher

Like many family dynamics, it didn’t have to be healthy, it just had to work.)

They say you can’t go home again, but of course you can. It’s just that when you get there, somebody may have repainted and changed the fixtures around.

Waffle House at four in the morning is a liminal space occupied by long-haul truckers, bleary-eyed shift workers, and teenagers so high they can smell God’s breath.

I asked my phone if it was connected to the internet and it told me that it had a very close relationship with the internet. I attempted to pull up a web page and it informed me that it was not that kind of relationship.

“I’d probably warn someone against shattering the boundaries of space and time too. You figure they’re there for a reason, right?”