Status Updates From Transcendent 3: The Year's ...

Okay well The Mouse absolutely devastated me. I sobbed most of it and haven't been able to stop thinking about it for longer than 5 minutes since I finished it. I'm sure there's a poem or 5 in that somewhere and I'm sure I'll write them eventually but I can't stress enough that that story specifically was so, SO worth the time it took to read.

"Rachel has always thought this incident exposed the roots of the social contract: most of our relationships are not upheld by love, or obligation, or gratitude, but by mutually assured destruction."

"I meet the god of small chances in a hospital waiting room, admist the smell of unwashed bodies and overwashed floors."

"Femininity is consumed the way vampires consume life. Those are the rules. Yet there's no comfort knowing that in a horror movie, I would be the monster."