Months ago… Smoke fills a corridor leading away from Deathrow, and a figure stalks through the smog. We see a poster taken on the breeze of Arcadia’s internal ventilation systems coming to rest at the feet of Nox. The poster … Read More
Take a Horse to Rehab
“When I was eighteen, I saw a friend of my mother’s going through the lowest point in her life. She was a stripper as well, albeit back when someone else owned the joint.” “She suffered from panic attacks backstage after … Read More
“La Enfermedad de la Vergüenza”
Shame. La vergüenza. It is a disease, amigo. An infection that crawls into the heart, spreads to the soul, and rots a man from the inside out. I have seen it many times in my long vida—proud warriors, powerful fighters, … Read More
What You Deserve
You ever sit and really think about what people deserve? I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. Because if life was fair—if the world operated on some perfect balance sheet of justice—then the people who hurt, the people who … Read More
I Know a Song…
“I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, and this is how it goes.” Even on the darkest day, sometimes a little song gets stuck in … Read More
Mr. Brightside
♫ Jealousy, turning saints into the sea Swimming through sick lullabies Choking on your alibis ♫ They say if you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. A pig poorly trying to disguise what it truly is. One … Read More
The Step She Chose
Sometimes the fall doesn’t start with a stumble. It starts with a single step. You don’t notice it at first. The little shifts, the choices made quietly. A door left open that shouldn’t be. Words spoken in just the wrong … Read More
