Matt's Story

[RiverNotch]

His mother was asleep in the car—
red-cheeked as a painted doll.
Her eyes fixed on some distant
point beyond his shoulder. He turned
but saw nothing.
His father unlocked the door,
and moved her head as if to pose her, but
his mother was asleep in the car.

It's pretty great. I rather liked "His Father", though -- makes that whole nothing bit all the more chilling, as it opens the piece up to a more, er, spiritualist reading. But then the capital would also make it rather heavy-handed, and already there's that sense of the creeping-in divine.