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Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.
Was Rorschach.
Does that answer your Questions, Doctor?
Alan Moore -
We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
Peter S. Beagle -
Maybe it was magical thinking, but I couldn’t help believing that if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it come true
Catherine McKenzie -
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man
Krista Ritchie -
Sometimes the choices others make take ours from us.
Mary Calmes -
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
Herman Melville -
A fresh start can be as alluring as a good memory.
Jessica Hawkins -
My dearest friend if you don’t mind
I’d like to join you by your side
Where we can gaze into the stars
And sit together, now and forever
For it is plain as anyone can see
We’re simply meant to beFrancesca Zappia -
“Tell me how you feel,” he whispered.
“Like there’s no going back.”And as the words left Nico’s kiss-swollen lips, Jake recognized that truth deep in his bones
Kiera Andrews -
The music is weightless and when I sing so am I
Jack Barnett
