The Horizon Rises
Fiction
By: Emilio Alvarado | August 2, 2005
Wednesday. It is Wednesday, isn’t it? What happened to Saturday? Did it devour Sunday and Monday and Tuesday, and was it now hungrily eyeing Wednesday’s infant morning? This savage… More
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