He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.


Fahrenheit 451: (ed. Hamilton Books, 2016)


He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked...

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked...

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked...

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked...