The Blue Velvet Bag

Inside the safe was a large blue velvet bag. When he reached inside, his face took on a look first of bewilderment and then of horror. It was brown and mottled, the eye sockets crusted with dirt,. The nasal cavity blackened, the mandible missing altogether. This is how the stories we grew up to tell are born: in an effort to explain something that happened to us until we discover that what we wanted to explain is fundamentally inexplicable.