title hands id hands genre prose project title buildings out of air paul in the woods class paul order 10 next title toilet link toilet title hardware link hardware prev title shed link shed title fire link fire he looked down at his hands idly while he was typing they were dry and cracked in places he thought he might start bleeding so he went inside for some lotion do we have any lotion he asked his mother in the medicine cabinet she said without looking up from the tv he walked into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror i look strange he said to himself i look like a teenager he stared into his right eye then his left he saw nothing but his own reflection fish-eyed in his pupils he opened the medicine cabinet back in his writing shack he started to type what is it about hands that gives them such power it is that their power is hidden in the arm push on the inside of the wrist the hand closes reach under the skin and pull on the outside tendons the hand opens again hands are only machines for grasping controlled by the arm not the mind dry and cracked in places weplayedthosegamestoo html bathroom boar html right eye then his left man html his own reflection fish-eyed deathstrumpet html machines ex-machina html