Broken words from the lips of pain come to my ears. The beauty of their sorrow in its tragic majesty reveals the sanctuary in the soul of man and the strange poverty of the rich. What happens to you happens to me in this spectacle of pain with the stain of innocent blood shed before … Continue reading Broken Words

“This must be heaven,” I said. “This must be God.” “There is no such thing,” he said. “Not in the way you know it.” Such a blasphemous thing, I could not believe our thoughts were speaking such craziness. “You mustn’t say such a thing,” I said. “We are in this place,” he said. “Whatever it … Continue reading Chapter 117 – God, No God

Deep and long, between the pass of time, like a saber wound upon my mind, is the tragedy of a short-lived life. Sobbing children at the break of dawn awake themselves on the morning lawn with no place to flee or hide. No salvation, thrown to the abyss, the agony of a hopeless kiss, as … Continue reading Childhood’s End

What does it mean? Go where? I expected to be transported from the place of my assassination, the cellar at the bottom of the stairwell leading to my Snorralaug, but to where? At that moment I had no perception of any place, not here, not there, not anywhere. All I had was the voice. His … Continue reading Chapter 116 – One

Sphagnum and rotting slime on my feet. Discharge of the earth. “Remind me what I wanted then. Was it meaning or was it life?” We have become a canker erupting like a twisted rag, roiling under thick low clouds, the victim of a hideous birth. “I am the Eve of Summer,” she said. “You cannot … Continue reading Remind Me