August 2010
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Better Endings
I’ve been reading more lately, though I don’t know if I’m the better for it. I certainly feel more aware and awake, my mind is definitely at work - scratching at surfaces, applying itself.
Maybe that’s the problem. I keep imagining better endings for the books I read, and I keep seeing these endings played out. For real.
Just the other day I was finishing a book about...
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I Went Back
I went back, or at least I tried. It was strange to see the place, distorted like that. No one there seemed to notice. They didn’t remember the way it was, or, more importantly probably, the way it would be. Was it me?
Everything was at an angle, and I could see all the wires stretching forward and back - saw my own. I questioned cutting it for a second, but then I thought about things...
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Into the Mountains
Into the mountains they drove. The plants were changing all around them, and now there were animals; living, not infected. The road was no longer the arrow leading straight across the flats, but a continuous curl, a question mark urging them on, around and around. Boulders marked the path, but each was the same as the next and each was as same as the last until they had to wonder if...
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Possibly Heroin
They both looked spent and used, like toothpaste tubes - squeezed out and near empty. You could maybe take a guess at what had eaten them, but not me. In the wrinkles I wager I could have seen life lived, but all I saw were bones and possibly heroin. They didn’t look made for one another, but they look like they’d made due - they’d arrived at the same point at some point;...
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A Man Like Him
I never knew a man like him, which was strange, because he was me, and I knew everyone I knew pretty damn well. He was elusive, and I only got the thought of him once he’d left. Goddamn, I’d think. Duh.
“Imagine you and I and a bunch of our friends are seven years old. We’re...”
– Scorpio Horoscope for week of August 5, 2010 (http://www.freewillastrology.com) 