Their Days Are Numbered is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online novel written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis. A different author will write the next “chapter” each week, to be posted every Tuesday, following the previous post from the previous week, and following a very limited set of guidelines (that each author has one week to write the next piece after the previous week’s installment goes up, that installments should range between 150-1500 words, and that pieces should somehow incorporate a real-life occurrence, current event, news item, or other happening from that week).
Follow the entire “novel” here: Their Days Are Numbered.
The sixth installment is presented this week by Emily Stern.
VI.
Brokenness is a psychological disease that.
Immunity.
A straight line.
No.
They climbed.
It may have been the shards.
It was rumored that the worst batch was the first.
The mustache was an awl.
How do you spell cartography?
How do you
shrinking?
convey the?
What maddening?
Drink me.
The lines, flimsy allusions to traces that.
Help.
Somatic.
Something.
Her face in the cradle.
Cradled.
At the window, she,
How could it, why?
Willing.
breathe in?
corrosion isn’t fatal.
Conversion.
Simulcast adjacent.
Hope. Virus.
At its core.
No.
Lush forgery.
The Vine of Gold.
Crumbs of memories.
She’d promised.
A cartographer.
Below the glass.
Leave the light on.
Ants haven’t stopped working.
Herd immunity.
Protect you.
The leaves.
She rested.
There is a road.
