Status Updates From Roadwork

“ If you had that collection of bad cells in front of you on the table, you could squash them with one hard hit. But they weren’t on the table.”

“ Inoperable.

The word echoed up the years to him. He had never thought words had taste, but that one did. It tasted bad and yet juicy at the same time, like rotten hamburger cooked rare.”

“ “All places are the same unless your mind changes. There’s no magic place to get your mind right. If you feel like shit, everything you see looks like shit.”