Grayden McIntyre
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June without Rum, May Without Gin
Ginette's under a pier. She's chewing on it. The surrounding water is blue as ever, very blobby and close. Blast the summer. She kicks away the tiny humans like clownfishes, eyes bulging as ever. Ginette hated the clownfishes and now she hates the humans that were put there to eat them.
By Grayden McIntyre4 years ago in Fiction
Pop's Gesture of Kindness
I had a cold. This was when Covid had just begun to make news headlines, so in reality I probably had that. Lots of people had the same suspicious cold around that time and felt the same way about going out, so being careless about it didn't make anyone a bad person yet. I was not a bad person for it. I had to tell myself this, that I wasn't a bad person, for anything that I'd ever done.
By Grayden McIntyre4 years ago in Petlife
Pigeon Spikes in the Household
Dorothy Van Hodgkins was eighty-seven and eighty-eight and ninety and ninety-one and ninety-two years old, while practicing the lifestyle of the live-in installation. But she was not practicing when she was eighty-nine because that's when Dorothy was hospitalized with a severe case of agitated osteoporosis. We'll return to the osteoporosis later.
By Grayden McIntyre4 years ago in Humans
What Might've Happened to Arachnid Melvin
... in space, in secret I've heard her echoes of pleasure penetrate without reprieve though that ceaseless nigh- Oh this thing is on? Scratch that from the… record, I was just proofreading this thing that my friend gave me… even though I didn’t ask… for it-- what? No! It's--! Affirmative, it's from... George over in Gate... F, I wouldn't expect you to know him.
By Grayden McIntyre4 years ago in Fiction
