“They’d look at their hands.

Their hands were empty.

They’d look around them.

Their surroundings were empty.”

"Would you really kill the Sun if it insulted you?"

“Nobody buys the matches anyways, so they’re

Better off burning up in my fingertips"

“After the movie, they exited the movie theater, lights circled and danced in patterns around each poster on the while, stabbing into the dark night like a few feet of the Las Vegas strip.”

“Frayed threads and bleached tapestry patterns came to mind. It’s not real, I thought, unable to move.”

“Two thousand years later, Romantic poets, who saw the world as a place of tragic chaos...looked to the swan as the symbol of beauty and purity.”