A Guided Meditation for the Big Sleep
First, close your eyes and allow yourself to settle in. If you are bound or gagged, or both, do not fight it.
Brendan Gillen is a writer in Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of the 2023 Mythic Picnic Prize in Fiction and his work has been nominated for the Pushcart and Best Small Fictions. His stories appear in Wigleaf, Necessary Fiction, Maudlin House, Taco Bell Quarterly, X-R-A-Y and elsewhere. His first novel, STATIC, is forthcoming from Vine Leaves Press (July '24). You can find him online at bgillen.com and on Twitter/IG @beegillen.
First, close your eyes and allow yourself to settle in. If you are bound or gagged, or both, do not fight it.