At my age, I’ve got nothing better to do all day than make peace with death. I can smell it. Always polluting the corridors of my home like a miasma of despair.
“And the things that were irreplaceable in life were the only things of value.”
― Corrupt
― Corrupt
“Not that he would be here to see it anyway, and if he was, he wouldn’t look at me.”
― Corrupt
― Corrupt
“but in practice, we were Catholic in the same way Taco Bell was a Mexican restaurant.”
― Hideaway
― Hideaway
“Have you tried a warm bath? Warm milk? Herbal tea? Reading before bed always works for me! No, shit-for-brains, she wanted to say—and sometimes did, I’ve only been trying to sleep since the day I was born, and googling home remedies never occurred to me.”
― Graveyard Shift
― Graveyard Shift
“Keeping my chin down, I tipped my eyes up, seeing his fingers, slightly curled, at his sides. I made out the vein over the top of his strong hand, and the whole room seemed to suddenly grow so quiet that dread filled my stomach and my breathing stopped.”
― Corrupt
― Corrupt
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