Tales of Desire
I lay back on the bed and stared at the ceiling and listened to the building settle around me, the distant sound of movement somewhere below, voices too far away to make out, the particular quality of quiet that belongs to large spaces with thick walls, and I told myself I was going to get out of here, told myself I was going to figure out who these people were and what they wanted and how to make myself so much trouble that letting me go became the easier option.
I told myself all of that clearly and firmly and with complete conviction.
And then the footsteps came down the hall outside, slow and even and deliberate, and stopped directly outside my door, and my whole body went still, every t