Tanks and trucks over the same roads,
Straining insects above a roadside ditch.
Speed, to hear their skates clapping along, then
Realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark. Who built all of this,
Reading again: Who could possibly calculate the minimum time required for us to get out? Might we not be asphyxiated before the Nautilus could surface? Was it destined to perish in this tomb of ice al...
Purposefully in twos and threes into the streets:
Praxis
Other. Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
N’est pas la r
Lunatics
Light of the moon? She almost smiles. We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in a...
Is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like...
Hurries
He wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are—if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.
Forever, but so long as he kept it, misfortunes would fall on all those he loved one after another in unending rain. Live forever? But if the keeper threw the diamond into the sea, thereby delivering...
Fashion spears,
Before you eat, drink as much water as you can, and you will feel full more quickly.
As if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.
When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same? He
When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is no bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?