The mouth of her right-head spits clear fluid it could be water. A fountain of goldfish cascades out of and back into her, from a deep pool somewhere in her throat.
She is on her back now, her glutinous belly shimmering in the fluorescent light of the kitchen. I am eating cotton candy made from melted candy corn and maple syrup as I watch my mother spit goldfish into the air, from her top-head, or her left-head, as she never stands upright anymore. I am as a glass-bottomed boat, one that is also glass-sided and glass-topped and glass-everything. Or my mother, inching forward, sodden-faced as a soft-shelled turtle. Or the ornate (imitation) Turkish rug in the televisory room. No mirrors in the house, and when I look down all I see is the blue-and-white linoleum kitchen floor. I cannot see myself to discern if either is my destiny. I wonder if I will become a crawler, or an armchair. She maintains the slug-crawl, lurching along the edges of the televisory room without lifting an arm or a leg, or even a head-of which she has two, one at either end. My mother now cannot, or will not, speak. When she emerges at my father’s back, my mother’s bones resize themselves within her goopy limbs, which, after one-hundred seconds, inflate back to their usual size. He absorbs into his fibers a blue-light special about cotton candy crafted from melted candy corn and maple syrup. He stands, firm and unmoving, facing the pixelated wall of the televisory room.
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My mother creeps beneath his clawed feet, flattening into a shape like a slug so that she can fit her full body underneath him without getting stuck. The current iteration of my father is red, high-tufted, gilded in (imitation) gold. He’s been reupholstered many times, she whispers to me as she slinks along the baseboards. My mother tells me his cushions were once covered in purple crushed velvet. Utopian Fiction: Antoinette Fung, E.D Human, Lisa VanGalen, Dave Thrasher, Leona Smith, Andrew Shaughnessy. Mystery: Alan Gold, Wendy Hood, Judith Wilson, Mandy Whyman, Saahil Poonawala, Elizabeth Lyvers, Grace G Moran. Lydon, Debbie Wingate, Amanda Fox, Kim Clelland. Peralta, India Rose, Maggie Pavlik, Jasmine Arden-Brown, Glenda Warburton, L.M. Metafiction: Sue Wright, David Wright, Martha Brown, Jan Sargeant, Ruby A. Noir: Swati Ravi Nain, Pamela Gough, Kay Lesley Reeves, Hilary Ayshford, Steph Percival, Anupam Rajak, Heidi Mitchell, Rose Lux, Wendy Markel, Kerr Pelto, Audrey Ingram, Robert Smith, Kathleen Cranidge, Alison Eve. Gangster: Finnian Burnett, Jay McKenzie, Jonathan Hood, Lou Holland, K.T Clark, Joan Bullion El Faghloumi, Ann Marie Struck, Athina Eleftheriadou, Red Morgan, Paulene Blazey.ĭisaster Fiction: Marlene Pitcher, Paul Lewthwaite, Agaigbe Uhembansha, Val Roberts, Maria Sheehan, Marian Brewis, Dillon R Morgan, Peter V. Antonio, Angela Johnson, Emily Van De Rostyne, Mary Cohen, Christina Kershaw, E.B. Gothic: Sumitra Singam, August van Stralen, Joe Durham, Sylvia Telfer, Lisa Verdekal, Emily Wilcox, Bean Sawyer, Julia LaFond, Justine Harvey, Sally Curtis, Paul Nockolds, Manaly Talukdar, K. Literary Fairy Tale: Angel Whelan, Tânia Dias, Shaun David Crowdus, Rebekah Marriner, Emma J Myatt, Mairibeth MacMillan, Tisya Barman, Kayleigh Jones, Sama Bakht, Claire Lindsey, Julia Pollard.
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