Louis Stutz

Viraj, Ch. 1

“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” I pause, the words dripping down into my consciousness with Arctic wind sharpness. The cheerfully neutral tone of their delivery doesn’t mitigate the awkward impact of their landing. I sigh, taken out of the moment, the intensely sexual mood I’ve been cultivating with Viraj spent and ruined.