Comments | tigermilkdrunk: Songs for string players with chilled fingers, Part 2

tigermilkdrunk

Songs for string players with chilled fingers, Part 2

Dec 24, 2007 10:20

It’s the night after the longest night of the year. The last few shoppers swell with bags, and the chestnut-sellers are packing up early. “Can I talk to you?” the man says. “Can you hear me? It’s that boy who just walked by. The devil is here ( Read more... )

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smallstages December 24 2007, 18:16:29 UTC

I read this twice because I like the way it makes my heart ache.

As for the last paragraph -- aha! Now I can finally untweak my jacked up models and rerun all of my data!

tigermilkdrunk December 25 2007, 10:48:05 UTC

I spoke with this man for around forty-five minutes, and it was just so very sad, because there was nothing I could say that could help, and so I just empathetically listened and nodded a lot and felt utterly powerless.

gray_fluid December 24 2007, 19:45:34 UTC

it blows because i'm stuck here until 20:15 local. as a result i'm missing my family's gathering....not sure if this is good or bad.

oh and fate gave me the best xmas gift evah this morning:

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tigermilkdrunk December 25 2007, 10:50:06 UTC

Well, I hope that you're now a) not at work and b) having a better time.
I dunno, the hell illustration is a lot more colourful...

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tigermilkdrunk December 25 2007, 10:49:14 UTC

I'm tempted to put together a book of these things. How's that for a commercially-viable prospect? Short prose pieces about encounters with the mentally ill; I'm sure it'd sell like hotcakes.