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Flashback – The Cure
The iron lung isn’t forever. I am surrounded by the insistent beep of the monitors, the relentless rapping of the rain at the window, the endless hum of the lights up ahead, and the constant ache of all the things I could be, and the things I could do, if I were free. The dreams…
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No Strings
I know what the police say about me. I’ve always known, because it was always by design. I’m so much smarter than any of those obedient little cattle give me credit for. They wanted a monster, so I crafted them one, and tore the world apart. They wanted a sickness, so I opened my mouth…
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Immaculate
Mud mutters beneath my fingernails, but it is just a raven, and I am still a human, so I must hold onto my mind. I started sketching flowers on my skin, swallowing strange pills that weren’t made for me, because I believe that I can believe a change, if I try hard enough. The gates…
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The Bullet
I told you that I had left New York for good, but I told you a lot of things. I’m not a liar, I just don’t keep up with the future, and so I really never meant to make it back here, and I really thought that I had moved past this, but here we…
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Bloodline
Once upon a time, there was a lonely man. If I am to be truthful, I must tell you that he was not quite a man, but still, he was ever so lonely. He had the world at his feet, and a power that made the ground beneath him shudder in terror, but still, like…