Survivor: A Novel

Fertility talked about art and we wandered through Contentment, Serenity, Peace, Joy, Salvation, Rapture, and Enchantment.

ghoul.

demitasse

tedium.

Cleaning this same house every day, all that gets better is my skill at denying what’s wrong.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

“The way this works is we copyright every conceivable combination of words, Greek words, Latin, English, what-have-you. We get the legal rights to every conceivable word a pharmaceutical company might use to name a new product. For diabetes alone, we have an inventory of one hundred forty names,”

“Actually, it’s awfully boring stuff. Anticipating the future based on the past. We might as well be an insurance company; nevertheless, it’s our job to make cult suicide look fresh and exciting every time around.”

Nobody lay awake at night wondering if the wheat they’d raised was truly happy and fulfilled being made into bread.