Six Word Stories

"I followed her to his house."

by Sherman Alexie

"Please, this is everything, I swear."
by Orson Scott Card

"All her life: half a house."
by Jamie O'Neill

"Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so."
by Joss Whedon

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
by Ernest Hemingway

"Samaritans. I'm listening. Hello? Hel... Samaritans..."
by Michel Faber

Untitled Prose 8

The sound waves shot from my throat move swimmingly through the clutter of trillions of atoms in the air. They climb toward the light of distant stars, carrying my voice in urgency. But the air grows thin, and my words disintegrate as the ground crumbles beneath my feet.

Evolve

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.

Henry David Thoreau

God it fucking pisses me off the way people treat animals. Not just farm animals but cats and dogs, too. Thousands of strays are brought to the pound and euthanized every day just because no one adopted them yet and the pound needs to clear room for the next influx of strays. Fuck people! Animals have feelings, emotions, fears and joys, relationships! What the fuck is so hard to understand about that, or is everyone really as fucking heartless as it seems?! Compassion is rare, and I mean true compassion, and as biased as this may sound, I think veganism is a big indicator. Fuck the humanists who don't extend shit past their own species. Why are humans the only creatures so special? The only things that separate us from much of the animal kingdom are our capacities to think and communicate, but we don't euthanize (much less exploit) our mentally handicapped just because we don't want to deal with them! HOW FUCKING OBVIOUS CAN IT BE? ALL SENTIENT BEINGS DESERVE THE SAME. THERE IS NO WAY AROUND IT OTHER THAN BLATANT PREJUDICE OR FUCKING HEARTLESSNESS, AND BECAUSE I AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE IT'S THE LATTER, I HAVE NO FAITH IN HUMANITY.

Missing Pig

He haunts me like the strange piano down front in biology. I was sitting cross-legged in my parents' bedroom the last time I saw him, sorting my clean clothes from my brother's. He crawled into my lap with his droopy head and sat with me until it was time to go. He knew he was saying goodbye.

I am so, so sorry I left.

All Delighted People

Everyone's a monster, myself included, thinking I'm more deserving of any consolation than the rest. No one thinks about morality or right and wrong. They just take for granted the values their upbringings instilled in them. No one thinks about the other. No one cares about anyone who's not as unhappy as they are.

The sun was born, so it shall die.

The snow is just another veil for the dirt. I know that darkness will find me. I am softer than the rest. I am giving up. My only purpose of being here is to stay a bit longer.

My Mother's Friend

my mother
had a schoolfriend
she shared the war with

my mother
looked after her friend
in the ghetto

she laid her out
as though she was dead
and the Gestapo overlooked her

in Auschwitz
she fed her friend snow
when she was burning with typhoid

and when
the Nazis
emptied Stuthof

they threw
the inmates
onto boats in the Baltic

and tried
to drown
as many as they could

my mother
and her friend
survived

in
Bayreuth
after the war

my mother’s friend
patted my cheeks
and curled my curls

and hurled herself
from the top
of a bank.


by Lily Brett

Fed up. So fed up. People are hopeless. Life is miserable. I want to die.

If Pig can't fight it, I can't either.

Twilight Gloom

Smoking on the porch with my dying dog, and no one can save us.

Quotes for Encryption

"I sit in place for days. There's nothing I want to do, nothing that gets me up. The world is too rotten. I'm not so convinced that existence precedes essence, because what's so inherently bad with the world that we turned out this way? In fact, the material story is quite beautiful. Only with consciousness does death come to life.

'The flaw is in that which finds the flaw.'

Judgment is not the perpetrator; it is perspective. There ought to be no perspective, and I mean that technically. Our bodies tuned to pleasure and pain are not just the framework for evil but its catalyst. Experience turns the eternal dance of atoms into moral pandemonium.

'And whatever's charming disappears, while all things lovely only hurt my head.'

Any fascination with the world is in vain. The charm of physics is mere witchcraft, warped by our metaphysical projections, our conquests for glory and the causality between mind and body, so to speak. Even consequences might be local to our perception, so if there was hope - hope for change - would it just be an illusion?

'Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.'

I can't find anything worth living for. Ambition is spoiled by human dominion; I'm bound to this wretched place. Ten billion innocent and harmless creatures are murdered in the United States every year for two reasons: power and pleasure. I can't live with this, and it's only one of society's countless transgressions. I don't understand people, and the only person who might understand me is fictional. I hope there is a God, and I hope he is good."

Driving Inspired

warm music behind your head as you drift to another body
now walking with purpose down crowded streets
the lights are dim, but you are in control
sudden red fading and brakes
all power is lost

Screaming bridge, heart racing and thoughts of going over.

Space

Sometimes you look back and feel pains that were hidden from you, and your face becomes soiled and hard to bear while hers is warm and glowing, but you know that no one's good, and no one will ever be who you want them to be, and then her face takes on yours, and the only good memory left is the one of your dead dog.

More Chiptunes

Just some of my recent favorites. Most of the artist links are to their respective Facebook pages, as they seem to hold the most up to date information. Let me know if any links are broken. Enjoy!


Future, and It Doesn't Work by Starscream

Like A Phoenix by IAYD

Information Chase by Bit Shifter

Two Warriors by Coova and little-scale

 Fighter X by Fighter X

Unconditional Acceleration by Nullsleep

Untitled Prose 7

Young and warm bodies bending, better thoughts and "no-no"s hanged by the door, you let me in with your chest and your feet, and the drab of your midnight parting left me pinned to the floor.

------

You ruled my hand with rebellious stupor, led it straight through your chest. Your love stained my sheets, and your heart bled through to your bra, that crimson memento still warm on my bed.

Untitled Prose 6

You always come up, the girl I don't know who's out of my league. What ties of heart you have here or there are swept up and away. I'm left to wonder what you're doing and how you feel, but your thoughts I know. I know them from your eyes. You have the same longing eyes. They're searching, and nothing can stop them. They host a fire that will soon be ice. They are destroyers. Nothing can stand your tragic gaze. Everywhere you look, the world falls apart. There's nothing to see, and that's all you want. You're alone, and you think love is hopeless.

But it's not. Look at me. I can bear your heat. I have your eyes. I know your thoughts. You can't expunge me. Just look.

Winter Retrospective

There's all this tension between our quiet hearts, but we're too caught up and worried and shy to sit down and talk about it. Then when I can't keep up and fall behind and start to cough from all the dust, there's only arms half extended and short glances to reel me in, but at that point I've usually had enough. What was bursting on my tongue has finally collapsed into the dire pool of my belly, stirring and sizzling and violently eating up my dreams.

Internet Superpower

I'm sick of the constant back and forth. At least, I'm sick of the infallible hyper-geniuses so populous among the internet. Why does everyone have to be so hostile? And why is it so degrading to be wrong? All debate should be in the spirit of learning. I'm sick of ego ego ego. No one cares about actual progress. Everyone just wants to be right. I think chess should be taught in schools. The most important thing I've learned from playing chess is that losing is a blessing. Don't aim to lose, but when you do, and you will, you should embrace it. It's how we learn. It's how everyone in all of history has learned. Trial and error. Mistakes reveal corrections.

Progress.

But not on the internet! The second you utter something suspicious, you have a league of self-righteous, online superheroes force-feeding you all the truth in the world. I'm sick of it. It's destructive. Kind of like capitalism, or at least what capitalism's become. Taking every advantage over others to further one's own cause. Taking every opportunity to edge out the competition. Ego ego ego. I'm sick of it. I want other other other.