Isolative Stories

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  • “The
  • Room”
  • is
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • a
  • nameless
  • prisoner
  • confined
  • in
  • bland
  • comfort
  • by
  • a
  • duplicitously
  • kind
  • and
  • seemingly
  • omnipresent
  • Voice.
  • Hopeless
  • and
  • alone,
  • they
  • attempt
  • to
  • escape
  • the
  • plush
  • carpets
  • and
  • weathered
  • wallpaper
  • while
  • maintaining
  • themselves
  • to
  • the
  • best
  • of
  • their
  • ability.In
  • “Cabot’s
  • Cellar”,
  • journalist
  • intern
  • and
  • recovering
  • addict
  • Jase
  • attempts
  • to
  • reveal
  • his
  • kindly
  • neighbor
  • Mister
  • Cabot
  • as
  • a
  • peeping
  • tom.
  • No
  • one,
  • not
  • even
  • Jase’s
  • grandmother,
  • believes
  • them
  • about
  • the
  • old
  • silver
  • fox
  • next
  • door.
  • On
  • a
  • wet
  • autumn
  • night,
  • they
  • get
  • a
  • little
  • more
  • than
  • they
  • bargained
  • for
  • when
  • they
  • look
  • into
  • Cabot’s
  • cellar...Do
  • we
  • have
  • control
  • of
  • ourselves
  • and
  • our
  • sexuality?
  • “Stimulus”
  • and
  • its
  • unnamed
  • call
  • person
  • protagonist
  • ask
  • these
  • questions
  • and
  • more
  • while
  • avoiding
  • the
  • frustrations
  • of
  • today’s
  • client.“In
  • the
  • Pub”
  • is
  • a
  • story
  • of
  • sidelong
  • glances,
  • small
  • touches,
  • and
  • light
  • flirtation
  • between
  • the
  • lodgers
  • Alan
  • and
  • Thom.
  • Unwittingly
  • attracted
  • to
  • the
  • younger
  • man’s
  • politely
  • irritable
  • nature,
  • Alan
  • spends
  • a
  • full
  • winter’s
  • stay
  • at
  • an
  • old
  • public
  • house
  • just
  • to
  • keep
  • the
  • conversation going.
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