Stories tagged “necklace”

  • Initially Speaking: The Fictitious Account

    I always trust Mercedes’ Metal Works whenever I have a new assignment. I slip into Mercedes’ one drizzly night, finding her hard at work with a torch in one hand, & prodding hot metal into shape with a chopstick in the other. When she l...

  • Initially Speaking: The Fictitious Account (pt. 2)

    She nods, but I can tell she’s not thoroughly convinced. “What’s the job this time?” “Sadie, you know I can’t say too much.” “Nor do I want to know too much, I just want to know where my work will be seen...

  • 1:59 AM (Mature)

    Erica’s necklace. That little turquoise nugget wedged in the center of all that copper and gold like it’s the middle of the fucking universe. Maybe it just looks like that because she’s wearing it. It hovers over my chest, and I watch...