Stice stuck to the window: the sound of collagen letting go

The body rendered down to its tissue. Straining backward, the two of them hear "the little Rice-Krispie sound of his skin's collagen-bundles stretching and popping" — the fusion resolved into histology, individual bundles of collagen audibly giving way. It's the anthology's body-at-full-resolution habit taken to its limit: not muscles or strokes now but the microstructure of the skin itself, snapping like breakfast cereal.