"Heathman Ldg" by Brian Evenson

"Heathman Ldg" by Brian Evenson, narrated by Wil

A splashing fountain in the center court of a mall with fully stocked stores but no shoppers, muzak cheerfully playing for an audience of none. A paper ticket in your hand, in an airport departure lounge that hasn't seen a passenger in fifty years, the board still updating flight information, with whirling letters. The front desk in the empty hotel lobby, an abandoned cigarette burning down in a glass ashtray, static on a black and white TV.

.These are Liminal Spaces: familiar, recognizable, but not quite right, an...