by Ronan Fenton Geran de Klerk Lucilla was the appendage of a larger organism, both invisible and diseased, one that poisoned her blood, corrupted her thoughts and haunted her shadow with its own, overthrowing her spirit and establishing a court of feral jesters in its place. She fumigated her apartment on a regular basis and swept the skeletons of the tiny creatures who infested it into the corner where they could be forgotten, their legs curling in on themselves in a lonely