Summary

An unnamed female character was shot in head, once in the front and once in the back, and walked around trying to find someone to remove the slugs. She noticed the physical clarity of the holes, and the passage of light and air going through them, wondering if the light was the light of her own mind. If the light did belong to her mind, where had it been before, she wondered. She questions how she can take advantage of it, even though the light is fading.

The female character wakes from her dream at 5:30 a.m and sees peonies under her window. In the mirror next to her bed, she sees a freckle on her forehead that was not there before. With a wet mist surrounding her, she sees the freckle growing and the flowers growing at...