Imaginative acts were denounced as vectors of postcolonial oppression.

An unfortunate sequence of poor decisions had brought him here, to this chair, in the dark, unable to feel his feet.

In the end it just exhausts you to death.

Your prayers were answered, but not in a form you recognized.

You discover too late the meaning of too late.

If we admitted how terrifying life is,
would we need more drugs, or less?

A single truth the mind has broken into many.

Do NOT react.

Who’s the asshole, somebody asked, and when he repeated the question I realized he was referring to me.

He remembered the results of a study finding that over 50% of people you consider friends don’t reciprocate. Although in his case this was more or less irrelevant, he still found it depressing.