The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!

In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.