Choke

And the kid is stupid enough to think a picture or a sculpture or a story could somehow replace anybody you love.

"Art never comes from happiness."

That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer

The little peckerwood

The little cooz

You're not getting any younger

Art never comes from happiness."

Someday it will be a doctor saving people. Returning them to happiness. Or something better than happiness: peace.

It'll be respected.

Someday

the girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked, a document of this exact moment, the last moment they would be together