Reeking of mildew, the hallway was lined with flakes of paint and the small drifts of paper debris, which seemed to get into everything in the slums, like snow in a house with the windows open. Blood stained the end of the hall in a startling red display, where a body slumped ( Read more... )

Steady, in perfect balance, Andreas' clock continued to mark off the minutes, a ceaseless attempt to catalogue infinity. Without looking at it, he knew that it was twelve minutes to two in the morning ( Read more... )

I don't normally do this sort of thing, but as I couldn't resist responding in someone else's LJ... fair is fair.

I want anyone and everyone who reads this to post in here something they would LIKE to do with me SOMEDAY.

Yes, it is contagious. I'll reply with a similar answer should you happen to post this in your LJ.

I can recall it, in my mind, completely. It never lasts very long, because I am quickly stifled by the void that runs through my entire body (if I still have a body)... but I can remember plunging into the glass, feeling it part like water before me, and tearing out my breath with the killing cold that waited inside. It was a brief translocation of ( Read more... )

Rain didn't bother the Horse Trader, but the corpse had a small brass case of good cigarettes, and the downpour would have ruined the delicious experience of smoking one ( Read more... )

Now that that is all taken care of.

Approaching St. Peters made me feel as if I were passing through a series of great invisible seals, progressively rarifying the atmosphere and removing the impurities of external being from me, so that by the time I passed under the facade, I was remembering what it was to breathe for the first time ( Read more... )

Cara had been walking for a long time ( Read more... )

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Pulling off my gloves, I sit next to a chalky and anemic feminine sculpture, a wan version of a pillar of Merodach. I was, as usual, finding a place to sit and let my mind wander farther than my body is capable, and as usual, I found myself in a cafe, this one familiar ( Read more... )