Afterlifes 4: Narrativus Interruptus

Chapter 4

“You…”

“No, you…”

…the…jumped up…down around…

“WAIT…!”

“…offered…near…enough to live… And since…just as…as here…so…go.”

…looked at… “… to give…about this…?”

…slinked off…crouched under…

“I don’t… Why…this? We can…all…while…in… See…in…on…for…play…in a… You should…”

“…take…for…before…rains…chance…” …crinkled…in his... “I just…time to…this.”

“You can’t…caught…surprise… You knew six…for this…”

“Yes…know…it’d…so soon.” …fiddling…his eyebrows, pulling…out…his fingers…sprinkling…on the floor.

“…go…before you…out. I’ll make… I’ll let…, then it’ll all… Where’d…?”

…one of the…hanging next… “I’ll go…like a… He knows something’s…, so he’s… Go…let…know…”

“…not a…start…pork…hour to…back…, okay?” …slipped…kicked…into the…closet.

On his way…, took…Manila…from…and…under…on the… Hearing the…open, …raced out…shot out…the open, making…run…with the…

Barely…to restrain…it, …shut…door behind…

Fuck… Almost…home from…to tell… Instead…like…just…died.

…emptied…scattering…of…

…must be some…the…one…imagine his… Damn…like that. Then…the dog. Asshole!

…up…next to the…and…under the…

…More…from… Who’s this…? He didn’t. He knows… He’ll just have to… Will be…no big… If he…next year, there’ll be other…of other… Going to…pigheaded…

Fuck the pork…!

…opened the closet…put…took…again, went…pick…walked…put…picked… slumped forlornly under…opened the…stood…the threshold…several…then strode…

…empty…was…except for…empty…–wood creaking, little winds…under doors, the…humming. Outside, the whoosh of passing…overpowered the…leaves on the gingko…guarding… Inside, the clock…, chiming for…waves spread in…, bumped…and doors, bounced back, …softly…dusty… There was no one…the dust…through the south… Dust rose and fell, swerved…invisible winds, …descent or ascent, making the invisible visible…errant…

…down the…, stopping now…then to…grass and mark…, looking for…to shit, …knew something…made his bowels, making it…to have a… Instead of…being…, he stopped at three…in each…

…knew something…, but the empty…didn’t. It neither…nor didn’t…continued to…through little cracks…the windows, through…little gaps under…doors…rising and falling…continued…swerve in the falling… Nothing was…in the empty… Happenings never stopped happening in the empty… There was…, there was the…humming, there was…and…, there was the sound of…, there was…spreading through, bouncing back…it ran…, there was…as the…fell into the night…is this…is that…and…always…with each…movements, in their dreams, in their, …in their silences.The house said…this…want that, …shouted…the day…through time, they made the…swerve, but the…said nothing. With all that shouting, how could they hear each…? Not hearing, the house heard and…silent.