Codex of Beings · Figures of single stories

Thomas

A husband led by the dark one.

Thomasch. 11

On a porch in the rain, the long-chinned dark one whispers to him. Inside, his wife Ana convulses after the dolls vanish, and he shoots her. He follows the shadow to a small red house, falls into a box of mirrors, loses his body among the reflections, and remembers Ana burying him in red wax under a new moon.