Julian Koster
- City of Lights
Oh! Here you are, and you're all you're meant to be. You're alive and you're not alone. So, close your eyes, and let the whole world call your name. When you answer, please don't go away.
snagov
- Vigil Strange
Never have I ever. Truth comes in two flavors. What we choose to share, what we keep to ourselves. We confess by omission sometimes, cling to but I never said that. It doesn't matter, does it? We're smarter than that. We read negative space as well as highlighted words.
Meg Bashwiner
- A Door Ajar
I believe in tough love. Also, tough tenderness, tough vulnerability, and a daily session of tough mindfulness meditation. The universe contains, among other things, black holes, vast clouds of gas and light, endless void, a diamond planet, and your tiny body.
snagov
- Vigil Strange
Yes, he remembers his mother. She would tuck him into bed with the Bible dripping from her fingertips. He is afraid of passing by phone booths. Yes, his mother is dead, but that does not mean she will not call.
Elias
- The Magnus Archives
My criminal record? The only crime I've committed was killing it on the dance floor. Well no, actually, that's not true. I have killed several people.
Julian Koster - The Orbiting Human Circus
It's okay! I know what I'm doing! My first boyfriend was a polar bear. Well, we weren't exactly boyfriends. He used to impersonate a polar bear in an animal trainer's act. Yes, as we in the business know, most big-game trainers have a costume shill mixed in with the real animals. No one ever gets close enough to see it. Well, the boy didn't like me, but the real polar bears did. They love me!
Julian Koster - The Orbiting Human Circus
It's another example of symbiosis in nature. Much as we feed the flea with our blood and it gives us beautiful songs in return, the janitor provides the old man nightly with the products of his imagination, and the old man provides him with a kind of hope.
Julian Koster - The Orbiting Human Circus
And as the janitor talks, his features soften, and his body becomes more relaxes, and the expression of concern and intention on the night watchman's face slowly transforms into a look of interest and amusement. And, in a few moments, neither of them is the least bit aware of the fact that, minutes ago, Coco had nearly been removed from this world by a falling bucket, because he is being removed from the world now, by something much nicer.
