Archive for April, 2007

Posted on April 22, 2007 - by Aaron Ross Powell

The Hole: Part 2

He’d lied about the steaks. They were already mostly thawed, his freezer broken nearly three days now. Electricity was still on–how, he had no idea–but the appliance was unreliable even before the bad times had come and the city’s entire population of repair guys died.

He sniffed the meat before putting it out on [...]

Posted on April 19, 2007 - by Aaron Ross Powell

The Hole: Part 1

Elliot sat on the front steps of his house and sipped a warm Dr. Pepper as he watched his neighbor drag her husband’s corpse to the curb. This marked only two of them left on the block now, him and Evajean. Oak Street’s last two residents, the rest decaying in piles the city [...]