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. Not his head, exactly, but his thoughts. His sense of self. He was in there, he could tell that, he remembered living and dying but… he felt different. Like he was, very slightly, off-center. Something had thrown the balance off in his head, in his core. His perception had stayed somewhere in the center, but […]

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 like I’d been hit with a bolt of lightning.             Left, to right. And it disappeared. There was nothing, once more. I sat in the nothing, and knew now that this was not all there was.             I waited for the light.                                                                                                               ___            The light came again. As it made its way across,

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 now there were only two left. Julius would look in the mirror, no matter where in the world he found himself, and he’d try to decide which face looked more like him.           He hadn’t come to a conclusion, yet. But it felt like he was getting close.           There was a knock on the