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Literature

Complicity

9. Complicity “I fear no love, As I fear no pain, Yet I'll yank my hair out, Should they stop the train.” “I hardly see why we need our chaperon at all,” I grumbled to Vanessa as we paced beneath the cottonwood trees on the grand urban boulevard, my voice hardly registering above the chatter of the birds overhead and the bustle of passing traffic. “It’s not as if I’ve ever had an indiscretion.” Vanessa laughed and blushed “You take things too personally, dear. After all, it is not a matter of what you might have thought of, but rather the ideas of the menfolk we may run afoul of.” “It’s not as if they were wild animals. Besides, I am a grown woman.” We’d gotten a little ahead of the others on our lazy stroll from the railway station. Miss Edmonds was already calling out “Vanessa! Rebecca!” to us, but we felt no urgency about making our replies. Vanessa answered me “That’s just the sort of talk a foolish young girl makes when she believes she’s become a woman. You may

Literature

The Old Man, the Wool, and the Feather

III. The Old Man, The Wool, and The Feather After the early dark that comes in the middle of December, the month in which we find ourselves, a scene played out in the town, a scene unseen, so to speak, for it was a stealthy thing which took place. Bundled figures hurried along the streets, rushing to be back where it was warm, meanwhile, on the rooftops, there waited a figure. The figure, which kept ever to the shadows, did not tremble with the cold, nor was it bundled against it. Had anyone been there to see, they might have caught sight of the outline of a manlike figure passing along roofs which belonged to offices. It was manlike, but it had some features distinct from you or I, being that the legs jointed curiously, arranged something like the hindquarters of a horse or goat. Like those beasts, the figure had a tail and horns upon a head with pointed ears. In short, anyone observing this silhouette might well be convinced that he had seen the devil himself on the prowl