People Park
“The covers on Adine’s side of the bed were undisturbed.
Adine? she called, sitting up. Adine?
No reply. She got up.
In the den Pop’s bedding remained heaped in the middle of the floor. The bathroom door was open, no one was inside, nor was anyone in the kitchen. Other than Jeremiah, blinking at her from the couch, the apartment was empty — Debbie did not count herself.
Normally the fridge hummed, the mixing bowls atop it jingled. But with no power everything was silent, the air ...brittle. From the couch Jeremiah, tail alert and coiled at its tip into a fiddlehead, watched her. Debbie shivered, scooped the blanket off the floor and took it to the window nook, swaddled herself, and curled up looking out over the street: but there was nothing to see, UOT was smothered in fog.
Across the room the blank screen of the TV glowed a greenish eggshell hue, it had a light of its own even when it wasn’t on.MoreLess
Adine? she called, sitting up. Adine?
No reply. She got up.
In the den Pop’s bedding remained heaped in the middle of the floor. The bathroom door was open, no one was inside, nor was anyone in the kitchen. Other than Jeremiah, blinking at her from the couch, the apartment was empty — Debbie did not count herself.
Normally the fridge hummed, the mixing bowls atop it jingled. But with no power everything was silent, the air ...brittle. From the couch Jeremiah, tail alert and coiled at its tip into a fiddlehead, watched her. Debbie shivered, scooped the blanket off the floor and took it to the window nook, swaddled herself, and curled up looking out over the street: but there was nothing to see, UOT was smothered in fog.
Across the room the blank screen of the TV glowed a greenish eggshell hue, it had a light of its own even when it wasn’t on.MoreLess
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