I think money is the greatest form of alchemy. I can do a truly terrible thing and transform it into a thousand tiny joys.
This once bespectacled chemistry teacher takes up the life of a hit man to pursue his true passion: alchemy – he wears contacts now…
what makes something cinematic…
and here i begin to doubt my own words
they falter because i stop believing in them as i create them
what make something cinematic is the artful manipulation of coincidence. the kind that rarely happens in real life and when it does, it feels magical. you feel as though you’ve seen something you should not have. a peak behind some universal curtain
“what follows is an act of female imagination” – Women Talking
we wrest the narrative from our attackers hands
“I think it’s beautiful – the way you can open yourself up to be hurt, or to be reached”
She carefully shines the bottom of a tall thin Collins glass. She has the time. The bar is dead. The creak of the door breaks the silence. She looks up. Unhurried.
“Has Mr. Williams been by yet?” he asks, sitting down. She picks up another glass.
“Didn’t he die two weeks ago?”
“Two weeks,” he agrees. “I buried him a week ago and he still hasn’t found his way here?”
“Nope, no sign. But this fellow here,” she gestures to an empty stool, “just washed in. He fought in the Vietnam war.
“How’d he end up here?” he asks
She gestures to the rolling waves from the west-facing window.
Spirts dwell not only in the places they die, but more often in the places they lived, the places they loved. Some spirits, however, get lost trying to find their way from the first place to the second. Like the sailors lost at sea, or the fishermen who have fallen in, or even a spirit stranded many miles from home across a strange insurmountable ocean. These spirits spend weeks, years, centuries tumbled in the unfeeling waves, but eventually, they all wash up here, shake themselves off, and step in for a pint.
I’ll add it to the list of things I’m not supposed to know
That anger between your brows
That this is no friendly competition
That you do care who wins
You
The list of things you shouldn’t say:
Who are you
To say how you feel
Just add it to the list
Nihilistic Porcupine 