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Sylvia’s Sleeping Coat – Travis Lafferty

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 14:27 — 0 Comments

The world outside of Sylvia’s window is screeching wildly, growing louder and louder. Freight trains come lurching towards her bedroom; great lumbering giants of industry gnashing the ground and clawing at the tracks below them, creeping towards her curtains. A soundtrack not without a choir; flocks of birds singing flat, ugly songs, devoid of melody and drenched with longing. Tangled guitar strings are the threads that wind themselves around her; some sort of awful scratchy sweater sending her to lunacy. Every phobia finds a voice, each one of them more grisly than the last. The ceiling begins falling towards her, […]