18. The Pharmacy Key

[hellaine]

Because where we come from, you understand, things like kindness and concern are award-worthy acts of humanitarianism. It takes us a lot effort to feel and emote anything real and sympathetic because we are dead. We are pissed off poltergeists in our skeletal world of tour buses and dingy amplifiers; we are ghosts, haunting the busy venues and

Comments

[hellaine]

haha, meeeee too!

[pink_rose09]

This one is definitely one of my favorites so far. I love the way this one ends.

[hellaine]

thank ya kindly :)

i believe one does not exist if they are not able to be reflected in another; maybe that's what love is all about and maybe that's why it's such a necessity to humans.

[hellaine]

yeah, thank you. this one was actually a pain in the ass to write and i think i had like, 8 different endings before i was like 'fuck it' and settled here.

[chancernw]

"We are pissed off poltergeists in our skeletal world". Brilliant turn of phrase and defiantely worth rembering. I liked the story, though it did seem to have a scent of the French existentialism about it. The mind's images almost seen as a projection in an art house cinema.
Great Posting.

[hellaine]

"In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence--as not-bound to life"

thank ya :) i can't wait to go to school one day and actually learn what the fuck i am talkibg about!

[hellaine]

is is about the jist of it, isn't it..

[lovelycoquette]

social parasite! I love that phrase, it's perfect. You could just say that, and I could picture human parasites, sucking out the beauty in everyone they meet, then leaving them for dead. It's great.

[hellaine]

yep ;) she's very inspiring.