Nestlings

by Nat Cassidy

Maybe that’s why her life was full of know-it-alls like Cathy, like Frank. She attracted them. She deserved them. She also detested them. Then again, she detested everyone.

“Be careful you don’t get taken advantage of. One problem with absurdists is they don’t always know when something stops being funny and starts being corrosive.”

Know your home. Know you’re home.

Of frickin’ course. Some frickin’ ritual or something, in the dark. Blood-drinking, Christ-killing, baby-eating, Adrenochrome-sipping psychopaths. Goddamn mongrels. Makes all the sense in the world.