I’ve got nothing left, I am nothing, I’ve always been nothing. Like you said, I might as well not even be around.
Now that she’s in the ground, it’s where I belong, too. She was pretty, she was nice, she was charismatic, I was always the hanger on, the third wheel.
I’m wretched and decaying. I’m miserable and cringe to be around. You said it; I finally heard you. I believe you, you’re right. Let...
I’m not trying to say they aren’t doing their job. They are working hard, really hard, to make this as painful and difficult for me as they can. They flay my skin off every day. Then they sew it back on with dull, rusty needles, and dunk me in rubbing alcohol. I scream, oh god do I scream.
They bring out person after person from my past to berate me. My wife, my kids, my parents, my teachers, co ...
I’ve never made it this far. Every other time I find myself halfway down the hall and then I wake up. I know there’s a secret in here, something that I’ve forgotten that will change my life.
I approach the door and slow down. The lights are flickering and I hear a deep thrumming behind the door, as if I were being greeted by the building, by the space behind the door.
I put by hand on the knob a...
I have to keep moving all the time. If anyone sees me slow down or rest, they’ll know. They’ll recognize that something is off and start to ask questions. If they ask questions, I’m just going to crumble and I’ll have to run again.
I get the sous chef to chop some carrots. The stew is boiling and I turn down the heat. Our lunch rush is in an hour and the timing has to be perfect.
The smell of cr...
What good would it do you? Just one more dead body to add to your pile? I’m worth so much more alive than dead.
Who’s running your social media right now? I can bring a lot of traffic your way. People click on your profile, watch your videos, and then we monetize it.
Ok, you don’t have social media. You don’t want anyone to know who you are. That makes sense, I get it.
So I’m a recruiter for yo...
It is easy to get lost in the underworld
Where no light can guide your way
Shapes only serve to deceive,
Shadows get taken for reality
Bring along a lamp
Pull a string behind you
Tell someone where you’re going
And when they should expect you back
But if you never go down,
You’ll never know who you
Really are and
What you’re capable of...
I’m telling you, it’s not her. Yes, she looks just like her and talks just like her. Yes, she can answer all the questions I’m asking and she can tell stories that only my wife would know. I get all that.
But you haven’t seen how her face changes when she thinks no one is looking. You haven’t seen what she writes in her texts, angry vitriol and vile hatred. You haven’t heard what she says when sh...
I dream about her every night. She summons me to the woods. I’m drawn to her, irresistibly.
She’s taller than me. Hair covers her face. The stench of death surrounds her. She pulls me close to her, I gasp, and I’m weightless.
What do you do when you wake up?
I’m crying. I want to go back. I can’t believe that I have to go and live my life again.
So this dream is a fantasy? Specter of death an...
Your time is up. Better run!
Their guns were trained on me. My friends were dead. I was shivering and shaking, my vision tight and my heart was screaming in my ears. Blood was everywhere, the blood of everyone I loved. They were gone.
I stood my ground. I had no weapons, nothing to shield my fragile flesh. "Do it," I grunted through clenched teeth. "Why spare me?"
"Come on, it's no fun if we jus...
My sister and I can never be together. It isn’t allowed; it’s forbidden.
No one can take care of my sister like I can. And no one can take care of me like her. This is just how it has to be.
Incest is the privilege of gods and kings. We must not dilute.
I’m married to a woman who isn’t my sister.
I have children. It doesn’t take away my love for her. I’ve told so many women that I love them, but...