Sometimes people don’t have to say or do anything weird. They just sit there, quietly sipping tea, all the while putting out an ultrasonic scream like they are dying inside.
Adam BakerTag: dying-inside
Kill me,” he said. “Do it clean.”
He sat at a cocktail piano. He played ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’. Rye stood behind him.
“You’re pretty good,” said Rye.
“Yeah. Always wished I’d gone professional.”
Rye killed him halfway through the third verse.
Tag: frank-sinatra-blues
Jane felt self-conscious each time Ghost saw her naked. A lifetime of fathood had left her with sagging skin. Ghost didn’t seem to mind. He had a paunch and a hairy back.
“All the supermodels are dead, baby,” he told her. “Let it go.
Tag: super-model-blues
Yeah,” sighed Jane. “I suppose. But that’s the problem. I can cope with despair. But hope keeps fucking me up.
Adam BakerEveryone has their heaven.
Adam BakerTag: heaven
Everyone gets tested. You never see it coming. But sooner or later the moment arrives and you have to account for yourself.
Adam BakerTag: account
Ghost grabbed the cab cage and kicked at the driver. Flesh tore. The crewman ripped away from the forklift and fell on the ice, steering wheel welded to his hands. Ghost stamped on the man’s head until it burst.
“Konecranes. Not one of ours.
Tag: cranes
But if you fake any trait long enough it becomes an essential part of you, like your fingerprint. So there’s no point telling yourself not to be scared. You can’t control your thoughts and emotions. But you can control your actions. In the end, we are the sum of what we do.
Adam BakerTag: cogito-ergo-sum
The burden of selfhood,” she sighed. “Life-long anguish. Straining to support an elaborate artifice every waking moment. Trying to maintain our bullshit personas. Haircuts, clothes. Making our big fucking statements to an indifferent world. We drink, we smoke, we squander fortunes on DVDs, anything to escape ourselves for a few blessed minutes.
Adam BakerTag: selfhood
Negative courage. Give up on yourself, and you have nothing left to fear. You become invincible.
Adam BakerTag: give-up
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