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Weekly Contest #371
I suppose it began, as so many disasters do, with an excess of aesthetic ambition.If I had not been so utterly consumed by that damp, ruinous autumn, if I had not possessed that particularly morbid habit of romanticizing my own miseries, I might have seen the hotel for what it was: a velvet-lined trapdoor. But at twenty-four, one is fatally susceptible to a specific brand of atmospheric melancholy. I wanted a place that looked the way I felt: grand, neglected, and thoroughly detached from the vulgarity of the present century.It is easy now, ...
Weekly Contest #369
The air is a thick paste of formaldehyde and white carnations. A choking greenhouse of grief.I sit in the third row, fourth seat from the aisle, hiding my hands inside black lace gloves.You are at the front, but you are no longer a man. You are a marble effigy, polished and pinned inside satin.The priest clears his throat, projecting his voice to the rafters.“He was a thoughtful young man,” he intones, his voice dripping with practiced solemnity. “A gentle soul taken too soon.”Behind me, a wave of synchronized sobbing ripples through the pew...
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