The Family Fang: a Novel
“The lack of depth perception that it induced seemed to be canceled out by the pain pills in a way that made him feel as if he had extrasensory perception. Half-reading a comic book from his childhood about superpowered elephants, he tested his newfound abilities by guessing the time without looking at the clock. The numbers flickered in his head, just behind his covered eye, and he said out loud, “Three forty-seven P.M.” He then looked over at the nightstand clock, which read 9:04 A.M. The ESP,... he determined, came and went.He pushed away the covers and tested the floorboards beneath his feet. His long underwear was baggy and unwashed, a uniform he refused to shed while he was in the house. As he walked down the hallway, the repetitive sound of a phonograph needle rubbing against the edge of a record filled the living room. His parents, still masked but sleeping, lay across the sofa. Scattered on the floor were books about fire manipulation and pyrotechnics, a fine coat of black ash across the coffee table.MoreLess
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