Thinking Out Loud_The Tent_Bubblegum Pie_Sleep Story
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Thinking Out Loud
“I love you.” “No, you don't, and you shouldn't say things that aren’t true.” “Maybe, but I really want to love you. I’ve heard it's healthy to try.” “I don't need you to love me, I don’t need love or anything else from you. You've done nothing, but hold me back.” “I didn't do that.” “Of course you did!” “If so, I was just trying to keep you safe, keep you from getting hurt.” “It happened anyway.” “I know.” “Why are you even here? This seems like a huge waste of time to me.” “It's not a waste, although I suppose I don’t put much value on my time.” “You should just go away. I don’t think I’ll e...
The Tent
“Step this way. For just a mere pittance, you will experience the mystery of the Orient, the secrets of the Universe, the truth about…” A small car of figures dressed in outlandish clothing, their faces emboldened with accentuated expressions, sped past to the sounds of bulbus horns and laughter. I didn’t hear the prophetic end to his proclamation about discovering anythinwww.onedoor.ccg, and everything, you’d ever considered experiencing. I had to insert words and meaning suitable for the occasion. It didn’t matter. I didn’t have a pittance, whatever that might be. The introduction to the fantasies of f...
Bubblegum Pie
‘I quit,’ says April Stanton, leaning on the countertop. She stares vacantly through the window of the truck stop at the heat rippling on the old highway. Her lips smack as she chews a wad of pink bubblegum. ‘This truck stop is as dead as a doornail.’Andrew Stanton, April’s father, looks at the dilapidated diner directly next to the truck stop. The desert has its own plans if Andrew doesn’t fix up the building soon. ‘The truck stop is not dead, April. It’s just in torpor.’And what about the diner? April thinks, folding a fresh stick of strawberry satisfaction in half with her tongue and chewin...
Sleep Story
"Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even. There is only one thing that I dislike in sleep; 'Tis that it resembles death.”- Don Quixote“I have to practice staying alive and preparing to die at the same time.”- Christopher Hitchens“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark o...