Half a blink after the smoke from the cigarette smoldering in the ashtray had curled into a hoary question mark and froze in perpetual query as if to ask, “What next, Dick?” Dick turned his head ever so slowly toward the kitchen.
Matthew Kressel
Matthew Kressel lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with his cat, Lucy. His non-fiction work has appeared in The Hudson Current and his fiction has appeared in Alien Skin Magazine, the anthology Revelations, and in the first issue of Sybil’s Garage. He produces Sybil’s Garage, a homegrown fiction magazine, out of his tiny apartment with much help from his friends. Currently he is working on his first novel about inter-dimensional travel and starfishes.
The Girl in the Basement
The girl lived in the basement where the air was cool and damp and quiet. Company was coming over tonight, her mother had said, so the girl had better make sure her room was spotless.