By Seth Price, from his novel Fuck Seth Price, out last month from Leopard Press. Price’s earlier novel, How to Disappear in America, was published in 2008.

He drifted through a thick and obscure world, observant but incapable of action. It took him a while to understand that he wasn’t dreaming but moving through the real world and actual life, only it was no longer his life, because his body and all its doings were no longer under his control. He found himself carrying out strange and horrible acts: murder and abduction, most disturbingly, but also other furtive activities…