Feathered Basement

Date: 8/4/2017

I end up in China with Akane, my father, and some travelers. One of our rooms is upstairs and one is in a concrete basement, covered in woodchips and feathers. There’s a toaster up against the wall with a white-hot lizard inside, skewered on a spit and turning slowly. I put on shoes, take them off, put on hockey skates, take them off. Akane and I have an argument, and a strange man tells me he wants to fuck her. I say she’s free to do what she wants, and the next thing I know she’s curled up with him in a black sleeping bag, forehead to forehead with their knees touching. I need to get out of China.