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a4b863f You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane. cellophane cellophane-wrap fake funny hokey humanitarian jesus-complex messiah-complex pretend pretentious see-through self-righteousness Rebecca McNutt
8e4ecc6 Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something you've made your own, something for you to be remembered by, something that, perhaps years later, your children and grandchildren can visit and get a view of your life in. It's part of your creativity, your hard work... it's your property. Now .. books copyright fanfiction funny geek ghost grave house imagine metaphor pervy respect sherlock vandalism Rebecca McNutt
4131837 Would you ever sleep with me?" he questioned once. "Never," she'd replied, her large eyes shining in the bluish glow from his TV set, "but I love you... in a different way. I'll always be loyal to you, I'll never betray you, that's how I love people." asexuality betrayal glow love loyal sleep television Rebecca McNutt
124b1c3 I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost. grief loss love memory noir nostalgia photo-album photograph remember sad think Rebecca McNutt
d116095 photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself... canon capture film fujifilm grief joy knowledge kodachrome kodak loss love meaning nikon nostalgia past photo photography romance super-8 Rebecca McNutt
de1c914 You're innocent until proven guilty," Mandy exclaimed, unable to hide her gleeful smile. She missed the way people used to have normal conversations, used to be more caring for each other than themselves, back in the Seventies and Eighties. These days, she realized, neighbors kept to themselves, their kids kept to themselves, nobody talked to each other anymore. They went to work, went shopping and shut themselves up at home in front of glo.. canada cape-breton cars convenient crazy crying death digital dying earth environment gone grief insane leaving-home lonely loss medications mental-illness misery moving nostalgia nova-scotia old-school reporter retro sad stop stuck taxi trapped Rebecca McNutt
4440d30 Yeah, you're right about having entire rooms full of film and photos... in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage... I have a few projectors, I have piles of Kodachrome slides... I like photographs. The world is always running away from society and the only way to keep the stuff that's happened in the past is by taking photographs, I can keep memories of things alive with photographs," Alecto .. cape-breton capture coal coal-mine darkroom digital film industrial kodachrome kodak memories nostalgia nova-scotia photo photograph polaroid pollution smog steel-mill super-8 train Rebecca McNutt
4a40209 You're such a great liar when you lie to yourself. liar lies Rebecca McNutt
995d48e People all over the world, you good, faithful, busy people, I implore you, don't be me! If you're dissatisfied by whatever life throws at you, walk away and leave it behind before it's too late! When life gives you lemons, make lemonade! advice-for-daily-living disappointment inspirational lemonade life news Rebecca McNutt
97e3315 I guess if there's one thing I can say about the 21st century, it's that the 21st century is all flash and no substance... everything is digital, nothing but files of invisible electronic data on computers and mindless zombies on their cellular phones... it's sad how because of the digital age, society is ultimately doomed. Nothing in the digital age is real anymore, and you know, they say celluloid film and ray tube televisions and maybe e.. apocalypse bleak book books camera cell-phones celluloid depressingly-honest digital doom film future paper photography poison scary super-8 Rebecca McNutt
bb5c5f7 When she thought of New York City now, the place where she'd lived for most of her life, the only home she'd ever really known, she realized the city was like a person who now oftentimes struggled to stand proud because both its legs had collapsed in a sea of dust, fire and scattered office papers. new-york new-york-city september-11th september-11th-attacks terrorism twin-towers world-trade-center Rebecca McNutt
ab13f3e Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are stripped away, leaving a stark white landscape, a sky which stays black at night and gray in the day, a world of only three shades. Stay outside too long, and your hands will get so cold that they'll go numb and turn red, like the claws of a lobst.. canada cold color frigid frost frozen landscape lobster nature shades sky winter Rebecca McNutt
05e8540 Small talk... Bernie resented it more than life itself. The weather, sports scores, frivolous gossip... nothing real, nothing serious, nothing meaningful about it. People were experts at wasting their brief, precious years on earth with small talk. life meaningful philosophy serious small small-talk talk waste Rebecca McNutt
efd305b Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone in sight; the only modern technology around was the faint blue glow of a cathode ray tube television in the window of a nearby house, and a few cars and trucks parked in crumbling gravel driveways. She was allowed to see this plac.. cell-phone cook-stove country digital earth farm film future glow grim kodachrome kodak laundry love massachusetts missing nikon nostalgic past peace photography pie small-town television texting traditional Rebecca McNutt
f731e42 You have more issues than Reader's Digest. funny humor mental-health psychology reader-s-digest Rebecca McNutt
78b5c6b At last evil and corruption take over," Mearth laughed icily, her eyes filled with a wild glow. "Someday you'll become so unstable that you'll kill anyone you've ever cared about in your life, and when that happens I only hope that you leave any outsider witnesses alone as you fade out of the world." Alecto froze for a moment, completely silent, setting the camera down on the fence and thinking things over. Mandy could see him clearly now t.. mother-earth movie sadistic screen silent super-8 sydney-tar-ponds television watching Rebecca McNutt
2f3a6dc I love the smell of old books," Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs." -- books dream mothballs nerd nostalgia old paper-mill reading smell smell-of-books surreal vintage wood Rebecca McNutt
cd15dac Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took. art camera cellulod compassion digital film future hd history human instant kodak magic nature nostalgia photo photography robot Rebecca McNutt
c6fbe44 In her eyes was the reflection of everything that mattered: old diners with neon signs, vinyl records, celluloid film, drive-in movies, Pears soap, department stores, her brother's old blue Camaro car and the smell of coal dust in the rainy sky of a summer lightning storm. ...And all the nice bright colors of the past that she thought were gone for good came flowing back into her life like a wave of nostalgia flooding over her, reds, yellow.. beautiful bright colors earth found-footage kodak memory mystery nostalgia rurl world Rebecca McNutt
6dbf94d Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses. clarity clear dream future imagination kodak-moment life moment nostalgia past pause photography regret snapshot time worry Rebecca McNutt
181fc05 We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not "we might have to eat the dog" poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and collecting nickels and dimes from the washing machine because she never got allowance, that kind of poor... poor enough to be nostalgic about poverty. So, when my mom and dad took me here.. birthday camera canada cape-breton cardboard coins digital dog film future instamatic insurance kodak mall mcdonald-s nostalgia nostalgic nova-scotia past poor poverty shopping washing-machine wishes Rebecca McNutt
c4f8341 It was the smell that hit her first. It was a sterile, antiseptic and very distinctive medical smell, a smell with an underlying metallic reek of blood beneath it. Disturbing as this was, Selena wasn't necessarily shocked. It was a hospital, after all. Just like schools had a tendency to smell like chalk dust and sweat and cafeteria mystery meat, just like auto shops stank of gasoline and rust, hospitals had an odour reflecting their whole .. blood hospital redundancy reek school smell stink Rebecca McNutt
9c70d4d Reasonable doubt trumps everything. lawyer legal logic rationality reason reasonable-doubt trump Rebecca McNutt
be67ef2 This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I don't know if I really want to leave it as much as I might think and I'm sort of scared to leave it all behind, everything I've lived with, I have so many memories of all the things I've done here and I'm afraid if I leave, I might lose all my memories... cape-breton home leaving loss memory moving nostalgia nova-scotia remember scared scary travel Rebecca McNutt
2e66850 I can't look people in the eye and tell them that they're going to die anymore. angel azrael dead death die dying empathy eye grim-reaper look morality pale-horseman sadness scythe sympathy tell Rebecca McNutt
893be34 I'm afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important... it's almost like people want to believe in some illusion that they're robots and forget altogether that they're real, living people... but everything these days is disposable, even people themselves, and that's why I'm afraid for the world," Mandy confessed, looking depressed and worried. "So am I... but I'll still watch all of it as the world d.. apocalypse canada cell-phone digital dystopian earth environmental gone grief hopeless horror human lost next-generation nova-scotia robots scary technology Rebecca McNutt
96fd4c2 Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad. book characters crime depth ethics evil good life literary lonely misunderstood novel sad spooky truth Rebecca McNutt
09cfaa4 He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly. child childhood cigarette growing-up kid memory nostalgia smoke wasted-time young Rebecca McNutt
9c55337 Everything has a past, a voice, existed at some point, even things as small and seemingly meaningless as a house in a huge suburb. It's a house like every other house... but at some point a family lived there, made it theirs, made it important. When people forget that history, that somebody at some point thought the house mattered, it just becomes an empty pile of nailed wood and brick and concrete that gets torn down for some strip mall or.. earth family hope human life material together Rebecca McNutt
5ea173a Alecto, do you think we have fallen from heaven, or do you think we are falling towards it? falling from heaven hell towards Rebecca McNutt
d542bc8 Don't pack your bags just yet, stay awhile, Don't try to run away to higher ground, You're in my twisted clouds of sad misfortune, And you are such an entertaining crowd! (I've never had such cheerful toys to play with...) Forget I said that - just a little natural disaster Humour, Ha-ha-ha. Pull up a rusty lawn chair On the waterfront in New Orleans, And ignore the wind that howls, Things aren't always as they seem. I can smell fear in th.. dark-poetry hurricane hurricane-katrina natural-disaster poverty southern welfare witch Rebecca McNutt
49bef17 Do you think there's somewhere else, some other place to go after this one?" Mandy blurted out. "You mean when you die, where will you end up?" Alecto asked her. "...I wouldn't know... back to whatever void there is, I suppose." "I've thought about it... every living thing dies alone, it'll be lonely after death," Mandy sighed sadly. "That freaks me out, does it scare you?" "I don't want to be alone," Alecto replied wearily. "We won't be,.. dead death depression disturbing dying frightened funeral grief grim heaven imagination kill lost misery nirvana nostalgia purgatory sadness scary spooky time truth void Rebecca McNutt
9af3712 Red rain, white-striped towers and a clear blue sky, it was like America's flag exploded everywhere that day. manhattan new-york patriotism september-11-attacks september-11th september-11th-attacks twin-towers world-trade-center Rebecca McNutt
cd06039 One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real. downside drug drug-addict druggie funny humor junkie Rebecca McNutt
235a3fd Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends. death fantasy friendship imaginary-friend imagination love psychiatry real Rebecca McNutt
3db89af Mandy smiled cheerfully at an overweight kid in a gold sweater and pink skirt who was chasing her little brother around along the boardwalk. When she was that age, on sunny days she'd be out on the boardwalk with Jud and Wendy, buying rainbow sorbet from the ice cream shop and placing paper boats into the harbour. She felt like a ghost, drifting past the shell of her own childhood. childhood children ice-cream kids nostalgia pollution rainbow-sorbet sea Rebecca McNutt
d985d4f Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk. dream girl nuclear pollution rainbow science smog storm surreal teenager Rebecca McNutt
b4dbfa8 Kipster is a perfectly valid word," Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. "Okay, so what does it mean?" Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it... it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to .. 80-s argue baby boring bullying canada cape-breton coming-of-age drama drama-queen eating eighties fighting funny game gossip growing-up kipster maturity nostalgia nova-scotia pollution rumors scary scrabble self-harm suicide teenage words Rebecca McNutt
7a7b2e9 Sometimes Geraldine feels like she can drive forever. Maybe that's partially why she took a job at Milo General Motors. Driving is the best means of escape that the human race has, at least, that's her opinion. She's never had the guts to try drugs before, both because her sister was a junkie in the last few months she knew her, and because she's heard the overdose horror stories, seen 'Requiem for a Dream', smelled the vapours of a meth la.. car car-dealership cocaine crack drive druggie drugs escapism ghost junkie needle nightmare requiem-for-a-dream surreal Rebecca McNutt
5900aae I've seen a lot of stuff... maybe I've seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I've seen what they can do, how evil they can be... I've seen the Holocaust and I've seen Jonestown, I've seen the Vietnam War and I've seen Hiroshima... I've seen the Chernobyl disaster... I've seen the World Trade Center attack... I've been alive too long, over a hundred years is a long time to be alive," Alecto sighed, staring at the cigarette .. alive chernobyl death disaster dying earth evil grief hazardous hippie holocaust human jonestown kami lonely nature nuclear personification pollution sad smog steel vietnam-war Rebecca McNutt
f10b249 You should find something better to do with your time," Mandy told him. "I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up." "...Come again?" Alecto questioned with a tone of alarm in his voice. "I take photographs and develop them myself, I've got my own darkroom... it was a joke," Mandy laughed. "I love photography and I'm gonna be a photojournalist someday." "Really?" Alecto asked. For the first time si.. april-fool-s blow-up camera chemical crazy dark-room darkroom demented develop disturbing enthusiasm film friends funny hilarious home-movies humor insane instamatic joke kodak murder nikon photography photography-humor shoot strange super-8 weird Rebecca McNutt
a50f21c Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store owner caught her looking at it and slid it across the counter towards her. "You ever read Hamlet?" he questioned. "I tried to when I was in high school," said Mandy, picking up the book and flipping it over to read the back. "I mean, it's expe.. bookstore classic coffee diffcult dog-eared geek grief hamlet loss nerd reading revenge shakespeare tea Rebecca McNutt
a0fc83d Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people. career dead death dying friend friendship funeral lonely morbid mortician undertaker Rebecca McNutt
afe6e57 Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone," her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ring. "Where've you been, what've you been up to?" "Mom, do you remember when I was a kid, I had a friend, he was a Personification of the Sydney Tar Ponds, sort of my imaginary friend?" Mandy asked. "No, what in the name of god are you on about?" her mom sighed in exasperation. "Remember? Only I could see him, but he was real and he was my bes.. call canada cape-breton conversation dysfunctional-families eighteen family friend friendship girl imaginary-companion imaginary-friend imaginary-playmate invisible invisible-friend mom mother nova-scotia phone pretend pretend-friend remember sydney-tar-ponds talk telephone Rebecca McNutt
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