Posthuman Blues

I developed this weird nervous tick about a year ago. It faded over a period of months; now it's back.

You know how sometimes when you're under strain or tired one or both of your eyelids will flutter uncontrollably? It's like that, but amplified and near-constant. It feels like there are delicate wires running through the skin around my right eye, and that some sadistic homunculus is randomly tugging at them as if to wrest control of some cyclopean marionette.

You can actually see it if you look closely: an oddly reptile-like nicitating. Christopher Walken would be envious.