Prose

           Matt woke and immediately understood something was wrong. A lot of things were wrong, actually, but they were all of different levels of urgency, and the Smaller Wrongs were only barely noticed compared to the screaming Very Wrongs taking the spotlight.             The first Very Wrong thing was his head. […]

CHAPTER TWO             There was silence.             There was darkness.             It was like this for a long time.             It might have been like this forever.             If not for the light.                                                                                                               ___             It went from left to right. The light was blinding; the shock of it made me recoil backward

Prologue         Julius stared at the mirror, and one man wearing two different faces looked back at him. It’d been like that for a long time, now. It used to be more than two; it used to be a dozen different faces would stare back. The faces had slowly whittled down, year after year, until