they can only do harm is the story of an audio engineer who's suddenly going deaf.

It's like at the theme park when you're on the one splash ride and you're coming down the hill and screaming and you're looking down next to your leg where there's a fat blob of water and you're screaming and watching it get driven away by the speed and the wind and the distance and you're screaming and your arms are up and the blob pushes raggedly to the edge of the rubber squeaky white bench and then

it's gone.

By Thomas Thrash.