Raining – but they stripped down to their shorts and swam anyway, in the pool shaped like a kidney. The Dead Man’s fear of water only struck him later – much later, when the sun had swallowed the Earth and the universe was quiet as a wristwatch. 

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Tristan Foster is a writer from Sydney, Australia. He is the author of two books, the short story collection Letter to the Author of the Letter to the Father and 926 Years with Kyle Coma-Thompson. Midnight Grotesques, with Michelle Lynn Dyrness, is forthcoming from Sublunary Editions.