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We all want some story to make it bearable so we can keep living long enough to work our asses off until we’re in the ground.

Spring and chapter 20, or how much more depressing this can get?

chapter 19... New Lunar Year starts with bit more of lies... but what else to say?

Look, touch me. Go ahead. Grab on.” He held out his arm and Sony squeezed it, cautious. “Harder. See? That’s the only real thing about me, that I’m sitting here next to you at this bus stop. That’s it. Everything else, what I do, what I’ve done, the goals and promises, they’re all, like, ghosts. For most people, their ghost is inside them, waiting to float out when they die. But my ghost is in pieces.”

chapter 18 - Aftermath of the wrestling tournament, and being kind is always a good thing :)

chapter 17 or how Christmas can be messed up... or family is not everything

Chapter 14 or Christmas gig at slaughter house

Chapter 12 or what kind of decisions we can make... When the temptation is strong

Chapter 8

chapter 6 - You lose the dead as the earth takes them, but the living, you still have a say in. And so he said it. And so he lied.