The Place Part 11

After the mechanism stopped working, we both collapsed on the couch in our living room. My head was still spinning from the noxious gas, but at least we were safe.

”I wonder,” my wife said, “What will happen to this…” she could not bring herself to say it.

”Hypothetical Son?” I said. All the feelings from the engine room made me numb all of a sudden.

”That’s what is said it was,” she replied, a little angry, “But it was hardly human. Was it?"

"Maybe that’s what children look like in the future."

"Maybe,” she said, her anger subsiding.

Posted by: Paweł Kowaluk