New Fiction: Slowly Through the Middle-Distance

It's a weird story set in the painted territories in the backgrounds of Scooby-Doo episodes, where a woman pursues a collective of donor organs that have decided to form a body and commit themselves to permanent stillness for good. Think cartoons, Djuna Barnes. Think full moon oppression and gallows-woods and gibbering coyotes gnawing through the shadow guts of a living suit of armor, then head on over to State of Matter and read SLOWLY THROUGH THE MIDDLE-DISTANCE, where...

Paramedics and scrub nurses are at this very moment lifting excised organs from donors on the thirteen surgery floors of this hospital, soon to be placed in coolers for steeping in an amniotic slush that will help preserve them for the long road trip.