Jack Keane

“He rolled his window back up and turned off the radio, thinking about all the other possible lives that he would never be challenged to live.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“Again the news crawl of Meg's words made its way across the designated space in his head. This time, size 14 font, white lettering on a black background, the first letter of each word capitalized: This Divide Between Us Is Made Up Of Things That You Haven't Done. The Problem I Have Is With The Things That You Don't Do.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“One great thing about the course of life is that there will be a multitude of times when you'll think to yourself, "I wish everything could be just like this, all the time."
And you'll think it more than once.
And you'll mean it more each time.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“Nibiru, are you around here? Come." Sometimes, he envisioned spoken words in his head as though they were printed in the air and he saw this word - come - all lower case letters in size 9 font. No exclamation point, perhaps two of those wavy dashes on either side, signifying impotence. He was too ashamed to shout without company, nobody there to give him permission to disturb the night's peace, nobody to cushion the blow of odd glances if a person saw him and thought his actions peculiar.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla