flush

After a 20 minute soak I sat up and pulled the plug. Suddenly I was sucked down the drain. The cloak of lead and midstream free float made the usual senses interpret inertia, but the heady rush of gravity suggested the contrary. Hoped to find the storm drain, not sewage.

animal erotica

He took the back route to the meeting place; best not to draw attention to his comings and goings. She was rarely seen with male company, and he was not much interested in competition. He moved quickly and quietly to meet her, but paused when she was in sight. Her back was to him. Even from a distance her allure was dangerously strong. He admired her long delicate limbs and the precise way she handled herself. He rushed forward and embraced her from behind, catching the glint in her eight eyes as she turned around and bit his head off.

darien

The scream of the fuselage tearing filled his head and heavy jungle air flooded into the cockpit. Both choppers crashed in unison through lianas, ficus and cecropia. The metallic invasion temporarily silenced the forest and for a moment all he could hear was his own breath.
I can hear my own breath.
His awareness of his positioning in the tangle of steel and glass and plastic was slow to come. And slowly he was aware of the soft rustle of leaf cutter ants in a line, and the scratching of an antbird, and the underfoot crunch of the approaching guerrillas.