Pulp.net - fiction

The Online Home of New Fiction

December 2008

I climbed the chain link fence by the railway today, Emmie. Sat down against the old brick wall and cried. It’s weird, the closer you get to the graffiti the less you see.

The sun was shining as I scampered over large granite boulders. I wanted to get to the ridge before noon.

They wheel it in yesterday, day after the funeral, bubble wrap round so it look about twice the size. A big bembem of a drum. Tick. Solid. Mahogany.