Archive for February, 2010
February 14
I can’t believe what I’ve just seen, but then again, I have seen this before. I saw two pasts become my present. If I squint, I can see both scenes– the boy and the girl pawing each other, or the two girls gossiping and laughing about an unseen classmate. It’s like a special effect from [...]
February 13
Why do I know this stuff? Why should I care? There’s a thousand things running through my mind right now, but the fact that I’m able to hold two contradictory memories to be the absolute truth is the only thing that manages to bust through the chaos and force itself to the forefront of my [...]
February 12
Satan’s Steamer. That’s a good name for it. Catchy, in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer kind of way. More to the point, it had an effect on him. He didn’t take off his coat, not because he was trying to hide that thing, but because he didn’t need to take his coat off. He simply [...]
February 11
As I walk to class, I start to wonder what the black-heart-thing was. There was no mistaking what its intent was. That thing was evil, pure concentrated apply-directly-to-Hell evil with a capital “Screw You”. Its only purpose, I know, is to annihilate, to consume, and to destroy. My big question– I hesitate to phrase it [...]
February 10
Maybe there’s something to that whole bit about ignorance and bliss after all. Now, I like to think of myself as a pretty nice person. I’ve never gotten a speeding ticket (which isn’t the same as never speeding), I’ve never told a malicious lie (again, different from never telling a lie at all), and I’ve [...]
February 9
I’d gasp, but I can’t breathe. I’d scream, but I can’t speak. I’d turn away, but I can’t blink. I’d run, but I can’t move. “…Sixty, eighty. Here we go,” Reynolds says, pressing four twenty-dollar bills into my hand. He closes his coat, ending my transfixion. “Sorry, I guess my shirt’s a little dirty. It’s [...]
February 8
Have you ever seen something glow black? It’s not impossible. Black is an absence of light; it’s what happens when all visible wavelengths of light are absorbed by the material in question. Most of the time, light passes through air without being changed; air doesn’t absorb any of the wavelengths of the visible spectrum except [...]