The man sat with his back to the bole of a cottonwood and lifted the dog’s ear to find the tick seated there, gray and swollen and pulsing with the slow tide of its feeding, and he took the point of his knife and worked it in beneath the body until it parted from the…
Tag: Consumption
Death By Pleasure
Taylor was working in Colombia. Bogotá is a bright city upon a mountain. Combined with its equatorial setting, the weather is crisp, sunny, and identically moderate all year round. Those who like their women surgically enhanced enjoy their time in Colombia. Steve visited Taylor’s hotel room the night before the concert. “Taylor, check out what…
Poverty of Consumption
Otto must have been raised in poverty and even though he had separated from that, it was forever a key part of his soul from which he could not recover. He was a system administrator and made sure to tell everyone he met that he owned a BMW M3. Lots of people had nice cars…