I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.