Len Hoeper

“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Apparently, we're all in the frame," I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger surged. Then stopped, dead - as I suddenly took in Handsome, Robert and Doc. They were all staring at me. They were concentrating, all resolute, all a tad furrow-browed… upon my face.
Self-consciousness burgeoned. I gingerly fingered my and lips and my chin,
"Am I drooling?"
"Your arse is hanging out," said Harry, not looking up from the forensics he was scanning.
And so it was.
Handsome, Robert and Doc averted their eyes as I, wishing I'd merely been dribbling, grabbed the back flaps of my breezy hospital gown, fully placed my back against the wall. Then, thinking better of it, dived hurriedly, carefully, back into bed.
If Chinese Lady'd been here, she could've, would've, told me.
I missed her already.”
― Morana Blue, Gatsby's Smile

“I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Say what you mean; and, mean what you say.”
― Rahiem Brooks, A Butler Christmas