"Mum? Josie next door has been captured by aliens."

He let go of his eyebrow and the flesh snapped back into place with a wet slap.

"Is it not as you imagined it, Piranesi?"
"Yes," I said, with a breath, "but so much more."

Just then, there came a bang, as something hit the door
And then there was a howling, and the scraping of a claw.

Now alle is DEAD withinne me, and the attick dust is still,
And old moth huskes lye crumbling on the warped woode of the sill...

"What a curious thing," said Alice
"One might easily lose one's balance,"
As she walked through the labyrinthine tangles
Of the sea-risen city's impossible angles...