Did you fabricate a silver lining there? If they had their faith, I believe they’re in heaven. I’m sure that’s just what Mr. Worthington was thinking as Luther Kite butchered him. ‘Boy, I’m glad I ha...
Both, in their own way, thinking, This is hell—the absolute loss borne from all those slivers of perfection that passed unnoticed, unrelished.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in, or walling out.
All the tiny, seemingly insignificant details upon which my world hangs.
A question repeated in the back of Theresa’s mind as she washed the purple stains from her hands. How did they finally break you?
Under the name Jack Kilborn. It’s called Afraid, and I think it’s one of the best pieces of horror fiction to come out in recent memory. HW: Work
Red veins in his cheeks that suggested a lifetime of heavy drinking. Can I help you? the man asked. He straightened himself up, blinking hard through the migraine. It took
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You’re saying that, out of an infinite number of realities, I intentionally picked this shithole? Not intentionally. Maybe it’s a reflection of what you were feeling at the moment you opened the door.
You killed your ambition, didn’t you? It died of natural causes. Of neglect.
You in one piece? he asked. His pack lay open in the snow and he was cinching the last strap of a crampon onto his boot.
YESTERDAY IS HISTORY. TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY. TODAY IS A GIFT. THAT’S WHY IT’S CALLED THE PRESENT.
Wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences.
Which is all to say maybe it’s just being alive at a baseball game on a fall day in the heart of her city.
When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole.
What if we actually inhabit the multiverse, but our brains have evolved in such a way as to equip us with a firewall that limits what we perceive to a single universe? One worldline. The one we choose...
What about the truth? Ethan asked. In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept.
We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we're a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.
They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you.
There was no end date for her sentence in this place. She was a lifer.