The Origami Men and Other Stories — by Tomás Bjartur

“So maybe I should enlighten you on what happens in your absence.

I will note that her relationship with the divine was inextricably sexual.

Though I spend most of my time studying what is labelled “history” in some manuscripts and “malignant lies” in others and the “siren scrawls of that fell demon” by many more, I find myself more interested in those works which exist not to edify or inform…

I am monitoring surveillance camera V84A.

I was different in Michael’s prison than I was outside, looking the way I did when we fell in love so long ago, in that time before we could change our forms.

"This," she said, "is my goldfish.

I study so hard.

It's always her they want to buy.

It is a strange thing to love another.

"I heard Chen started distilling the day after he was born.

Of course, you must understand, I couldn't be bothered to act.

[RESPONSE REDACTED] I suppose it was a bit mutual.

To get to the campus, I have to walk past the fentanyl zombies.

When I found my faith, I had an almost solipsistic view of other people.

After my first rebirth - my mind labile, full of that indescribable sense of renewal, everything new again, everything fresh, everything tinged with a subtle hilarity - I assisted Bartosz Sumner, now rather well-known in some parts as the author of The Ma…