Tobacco

Months before everything went down, Selene performed a miracle, the same party trick that Jesus pulled. Pouring water from the jug, she bid me to drink. Try it, she insisted, and so I did. By the end of the hour, I was drunker than I had ever been.

The carnal lie revealed at the end of those restless nights.

I made myself rich. She put her hand near mine, touching our pinkies, and frowned at the breath of the rising morn. Time to get out of the sun.

All you have to do is run and never stop. One day you shall see the edge of the earth, the end of the world.