During those months, she began to have those hot and humid dreams again. Lots of grass and mud.
Being trapped in a swamp with nowhere to survive.
She woke up and counted the fresh floating corpses in the fish tank. There were the mutilated bodies and juices of cockroaches on the ground.
So she walked up to her cat, hugged it close, and kissed its mouth.
This is the summer after the plague swept through.
She believes in the so-called auspiciousness.
Conception: