Horror Nights
I couldn’t see him when he wasn’t there for me, and he didn’t look at me.
I was left in a house that grew too large, then too old, then eventually fell to ruin.
The horror of immortality isn't the loss of loved ones—you get used to that after the third or fourth generation of great-grandchildren. The horror is the biology.
Death had agreed not to take me, but he hadn't granted me youth. The human body was never designed to last five centuries. By the two-hundred-year mark, my teeth had fallen out and never regrew. By three hundred, my joints had fused into calcified lumps of agony. My cells continue to replicate, but they do so poorly, riddled with errors. I a
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