An excerpt from a new story by Dana Diehl, published in the first Splice anthology.
Saturday is abortion day at Happy Bellies: Potbelly Pig Rescue and Sanctuary. I used to be upset by this, the idea of all those potential somethings becoming nothings, but a lot of things that used to upset me don’t upset me anymore.
He time travels in his sleep. You learn this the morning after your first date at the dive bar that never checks IDs.
It’s been two days since we were swallowed by the loneliest whale in the world. Two days since we caught in its trachea, and having nowhere else to go, crawled into its damp cave of a belly.
The visions started a year before we met. Ashton dreams of an Earth with wide stretches of endless sand and uninterrupted sky. It’s always the water that goes.
Daniel Davis Wood talks to Dana Diehl, author of Our Dreams Might Align (2 of 2).
Daniel Davis Wood talks to Dana Diehl, author of Our Dreams Might Align (1 of 2).