Surely among the many outlandish successes of AMRV is that it has eradicated from human beings our original sin: hope. But I don’t have AMRV, which means I still suffer from the cruelest disease of our species, terminal aspiration.

“This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around ”

“Me: "it does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dis…”

“I was thinking about this tonight, actually, that maybe I want strangers to thi…”

“Everyone in this tale had a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; you…”