

Babylon: Mirror, MirrorCHAPTER FOUR MIRROR, MIRRORBabylon: Mirror, Mirror
Staring down at the photos in my wallet, I had to bite my lip hard to keep from crying. Newscasts from that night slithered through my head like a dozen venomous snakes. ... night of his eighteenth birthday, was arrested for the murder... ... several witnesses reported that John had been acting 'strangely' all day. None of them could have known... ... Colm and Jane Ackerman found brutally murdered in their son's bedroom only hours ago... ... we're told that, before killing his par


Quickwrite: CoverTongue's a tripwire, caught in your cheek But it's never enough to rescue the meek Coffin nails line your fingers, and satin, your stride Now I'll paint a bleak scene to mask what's inside If my face were a carnival, you'd call me a fake So let's try to be honest, for honesty's sakeQuickwrite: Cover


Babylon: HellCHAPTER THREE HELLBabylon: Hell
Stretching for as far as the eye could see (or at least as far as the shaking beam of the flashlight could penetrate) were the walls of an atrocious cave, a vast cavern of wet, cinnabar-colored flesh pulsing in and out like the interior of some terrible creature's still-beating heart. Slime and sludge oozed down the undulating walls, thick heliotrope globs of mucus and puss that smelled worse than a decaying corpse and dripped down over my head in stinking clods of accumulated filth. Beneath me, the ordinary hardwood floor had vanished, replaced by a rubbery leather hide spotte


Babylon: EighteenCHAPTER TWO EIGHTEENBabylon: Eighteen
Johnny! Cynthia called up from the kitchen downstairs. Johnny! Hurry up! We're not gonna wait all night! I'm coming! I shouted back over my shoulder in the direction of my bedroom door. I went back to combing my hair, parting it to the right so that it fell in one smooth swoop over my forehead. The only light in the room came from a set of open windows on the south wall, the faint rays of light from the street lamp outside giving my dark brown hair a glossy ring around the crown of my head.
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