Two lifeless twin toddlers dangled from their father's helpless arms as he was rushed from the scene. "Goodbye, baby. Goodbye, baby." The father wasn't even crying, just frozen stiff in the passenger's seat. He was too lost in a crushing mental void to notice as they passed the little tattered bodies convulsing on the ground, foaming at the mouth, melting. All he could do was … [Read more...]
Deleted Dreams
"Most dreams are forgotten immediately, the second they've finished, erased forever. It's a evolutionary defense mechanism. They're far worse than our worst nightmares." "How do you know?" "It's just a fact, it's science." "Well, I've never heard that before. I know it's true that we don't remember most of our dreams, but I've never heard that that's why." "Now you've … [Read more...]
Comments section: LinkedIn edition
A woman shares a rejection letter Albert Einstein received from the University of Bern in Switzerland in 1907. Never give up, she wants to remind her connections. Her connections and their connections can't resist questioning why the letter would have been written in English. That thread is pulled and they find more problems. Do more research. Come back and leave more comments. … [Read more...]
Chocolate Éclairs
"I'm sorry to tell you this," started a voice behind me. It belonged to a forgettable man in a checkered blue button down carrying a whimpering toddler in his arms. "We're probably about to ruin your peaceful Saturday." The door to the garden creaked open again and a second man, also on the younger side of middle-age, with black hair and sporting a grey crew neck, held it open … [Read more...]
Joan Didion in the Dining Room
Look at all these quotes on the pillars around the dining room. Quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Oscar Wilde, Ray Bradbury, Joan Didion, and all the others. You leave remains, but you don’t get to choose what remains. Now, think, each of these authors is all that remains of a particular world. For the most part. I’m not talking about … [Read more...]