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99c5c19	I've seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly... they can't kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I've seen humans die from smoking them... if I were you I would stop smoking them." "Why should I? You smoke 'em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes," Mandy pointed out. "Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties... for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tape..	attack blast-from-the-past cancer chain-smoke cigar cigarette creepy deadly depress depression disturbing education eerie gray grief haunting health horror knowledge loss no-smoking past pollution retro scary self-help sick smog smoke spooky times tobacco trapped vhs-tape video	Rebecca McNutt
bb144b3	Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a screen, they'd likely text with their last breath.	cell-phone depressing digital-age future phone sad text	Rebecca McNutt
6759640	I've been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you'll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down.	baggage fall grief life mental-illness mourn mourning unstable	Rebecca McNutt
ead9b0f	People don't look like people anymore after they've fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground.	disaster fall gore ground people september-11-attacks september-11th twin-towers world-trade-center	Rebecca McNutt
d34484e	Shout to the top!	cheer fun happy joy life protest shout voice	Rebecca McNutt
1c9d77f	Why'd you want to kill yourself? Didn't you feel anything, or didn't it hurt you?" Mandy questioned, looking puzzled. "Yes, I suppose it did, ... it was strange, it was sharp, that's all I can think of to describe it... and cold, but not cold like ice, more like... I don't know, like something much worse, something horrible... and it seemed like the ground was falling upwards, becoming the sky... for a moment it made me consider that it wa..	canada confusion creepy dark death drugs dying dysfunctional friend friends friendship grief halloween help loss morbid nostalgia sadness self-harm self-mutilation spooky suicide swing-set	Rebecca McNutt
69fc964	You get people who think you have a mental disorder, people calling you frigid, but I don't care. If they're that desperate, clearly THEY have a problem.	asexuality desperate frigid love mental-disorder	Rebecca McNutt
c39b311	They were relentless, brilliant scavengers with a keen sense of craftiness, and no human being could outwit them. The kind of cunning mischief and competition that a murder of crows possessed was unbeatable, and the war between farmer and fowl was a never-ending tale of woe which often led purely to bankruptcy.	bird country crow farm farmer nature raven	Rebecca McNutt
0b2141c	I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.	canada-day cape-breton coal country hazardous home life living nova-scotia patriot pollution steel sydney-tar-ponds toxic	Rebecca McNutt
581d398	Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh.	funny happy joy laugh life live	Rebecca McNutt
bb347ad	There are some things in the past that... that just aren't meant to be viewed.	found-footage met past viewed	Rebecca McNutt
814b528	When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?	brother hatred history human man monster morality prejudice race racism sister	Rebecca McNutt
3f0d35c	Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn't listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed in identical uniforms, just like in school, always standing with stony faces, setting up shelters and warning signals and food storage boxes. And as the public service announcements and racist propaganda bloomed onto the screens in every cla..	army bigitry box classroom education ignorance military nuclear nuclear-war propaganda public-service-announcement racism radiation radioactive school screen sheeple society stereotype storage-box united-states war weapon	Rebecca McNutt
407e360	I don't want any other friends! They'd never be as good a friend as you are.	friend	Rebecca McNutt
9d645e6	Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.	cynical deams fake false lie nightmare sleep	Rebecca McNutt
5322620	Oh, I'm Chrissy Mackenzie, I'm from Vancouver but I came here to study environmental journalism," the girl exclaimed with way too much enthusiasm. "You got any advice?" "Search me," Mandy muttered, spooning another ice cube from the empty glass on the table in front of her. "I like pollution, I write in favor of it, and environmental journalism most often implies that it's in favor of all that "go green" hippie crap." "Oh, well...." Chriss..	cape-breton change drea drunk environmntal friend gol hippie hope ice-cube improve journalist joy nova-scotia peace pollution sad vancouver world	Rebecca McNutt
1adb6c9	People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were pollution we would get rid of anyone who was different, anyone who was considered an inconvenience... but we'd be getting rid of a life, a lot of lives... because we didn't like them. If pollution was a person would we still be trying to get ri..	animals canada dangerous death earth environment environmentalism evil garbage help hippie hope human life litter mental-illness people plants pollution scary smog water	Rebecca McNutt
2a0a0e9	Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be.	family-drama happy people social	Rebecca McNutt
20c3944	Selena was born in a generation that had grown up on the edge. She'd grown up knowing that the little child starlet who voiced Anne-Marie on 'All Dogs Go to Heaven', Judith Barsi, had been murdered and set on fire by her own father. She'd grown up knowing that school shootings were more common than winning the lottery. She'd grown up in an age of terror.	fear growing-up judith-barsi millennial-quotes millennials murder school-shooting terror	Rebecca McNutt
f93063f	There was a heaven beyond anything he knew where there was no jet fuel, no jumping, no burning towers... but he wasn't looking beyond yet. He was still looking back.	death heaven life new-york new-york-city september-11-attacks september-11th skyscrapers terrorism	Rebecca McNutt
bb6b4ba	Wendy's house, unlike many in Cape Breton, had three floors, along with a basement and attic. Aside from Wendy's bedroom, there was a laundry room. The dirty water in the sink would rush from the washer hose, bubbling up, threatening to overflow, but it never did. Next-door was a motel with a neon sign that read in turquoise and pink, "We have the best rates in town!", but the 'E' in 'rates' kept flickering on and off day and night so that ..	bedroom best bubble canada cape-breton funny hotel house inn laundry-room motel neon nostalgia odd pink poor quaint rat rates rats sink small-town strange sydney turquoise weird	Rebecca McNutt
d0f338e	They think I'm not entirely 'grounded in reality', they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back programmed like some robot, dressed in a tye-dyed shirt and eating tuna sandwiches," Mandy explained, a horrified look on her face. "You're eighteen, not twelve! Would they really send you to some rat's nest like that?" Wendy questioned in mock ho..	canada center coming-of-age family friendship humor locks nostalgia nova-scotia ontario pressure preteen rebel reprogramming self-help sleepaway straight-camp summer-camp teen troubled tuna-sandwich wiener-roast	Rebecca McNutt
615584f	On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, never the kind of person who deserved to die in the way that he did.	glass greed morality september-11-attacks wall-street	Rebecca McNutt
6d95d6b	The Twin Towers stood out like an enormous number 11 looming over New York City, a familiar icon coupled with the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty. Those towers were like the soul of lower Manhattan, alive in their own right.	brooklyn-bridge empire-state-building icon landmark manhattan skyscraper statue-of-liberty twin-towers world-trade-center	Rebecca McNutt
8e189a5	I don't want anything else bad to happen," she whispered, her voice choked with tears. "I'm so sick to death of bad things happening, of seeing bad things that happened in the past! And I'm guilty of so many things. I'm sorry that I killed Mrs. Matthias and wrecked her stupid greenhouse back in the Eighties and I'm sorry I left you here alone while I went around the world." "I wasn't alone though, I knew you were doing what you wanted to do..	apart bad crying damaged death eighties friend friendship greenhouse grief guilt hopelessness lonliness love murder omen shadow smile sorrow tears together travel trouble world	Rebecca McNutt
10054a5	I've just been thinking it would be a lot of fun to live in a defunct shopping mall! Totally abandoned, Yet still frozen in time, Bright white lights shining, Artificial turquoise fountains spewing out clear water, Eerie eighties elevator music drifting by... Dancing erratically, shouting to the top, Because it's sad to see these places die. They're a testament to the hubris of modern America, which is dying in and of itself. Let's ..	childhood consumerism dead-mall eerie life love mall nostalgia shopping	Rebecca McNutt
362f8ce	People who want nothing need nothing more than power.	power society wealth	Rebecca McNutt
e26618d	Someday I'll be a lawyer... someday I'll bring justice to people who need it. Lawyers are either legalized liars... or saviors of the truth.	court courtroom jurisprudence law lawyer legal liar savior truth	Rebecca McNutt
b4d2d3f	New York City is a phoenix rising from the ashes.	new-york new-york-city phoenix phoenix-rising sad september-11-attacks terrorism world-trade-center	Rebecca McNutt
b42e34b	Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.	canada cape-breton coal created death dying kodak-moment memory mining nostalgia nova-scotia person pollution society steel super-8 threw	Rebecca McNutt
f3629a7	Um, thanks," Jackson told her. "And your name is...?" "I'm Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf," she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached. "Van Der Graaf?" Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn't want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but... Van Der Graaf? "What are you laughing at?" Margaret asked with curiosity..	comedy friendship funny ghost humor longing lonliness name smile stranger weird	Rebecca McNutt
9932dd4	What's supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.	dreams inspirational life philosophy supposed	Rebecca McNutt
7103481	If you were me you'd do the right thing, help your friends, because you're not a coward," Mandy sighed sadly. "I covered up a murder because I was scared to go to jail and I did the wrong thing... well, now's my chance to do the right thing, to save someone's life, because I don't want you to die." "Save someone's life? I'm no one," Alecto laughed morbidly. "A hundred and twelve years is definitely way too long to have survived. You'd be wa..	cape-breton coward crime death disturbance dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend jail loss misery moral-values morals murder nova-scotia ocean rescue right scary seaside suicide wrong	Rebecca McNutt
e32bbc4	And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?	insanity sorrow time	Rebecca McNutt
739c692	There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it... this place, she decided, was called Smog City.	canada city concept cruel death film forgotten grief heaven kodachrome kodak nostalgia smog steel super-8	Rebecca McNutt
5ac577c	With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature," Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. "I didn't create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren't many of them left these days but they're still very dangerous! They're here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don't understa..	canada cape-breton chemicals chernobyl coal death disturbing dying earth entity environment fear green grief hazardous hippie imaginary imagination loss love-canal mother-earth nature nova-scotia pollution recycle representation scared smog steel storm suicide sydney-tar-ponds tar tar-sands toxic-waste	Rebecca McNutt
999d312	Son, let me tell you a little something about the environment... you can try to fix it up all you want, but it's a waste of time. Sooner or later we'll all be doomed... slaughtered by terrorists, baked in the heat of the sun, nuked until our shadows glow... greed is good. We don't exist to help other people, we exist to grow the hell up, have kids, get old and die, while consuming all we can. Nothing comes after. There's no wrath, no day of..	environment fix greed heat nice nuclear rich sun terrorism	Rebecca McNutt
8a0d0c5	Super 8 film is the language of silence.	cape-breton film kodak kodak-moment language nostalgia nova-scotia obscure photography seventies silence super-8	Rebecca McNutt
da1b5b6	She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly."	cigarette dragging line live loud mind music noise noisy place question quiet radio smoking song thinking thought tommy-james world	Rebecca McNutt
080c3c2	I love you," he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. "I'd trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems... you never deserved this... why would anyone do something so terrible!?" A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again. The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden..	bulb death depressing dim electricity empty explode eyes fluorescent friendship grief heart hospital i-love-you lobotomy loss love mental-hospital psychosurgery tragic	Rebecca McNutt
b8b2676	Why did you revive me?" Alecto repeated. "Well... uh, well...." Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. "They say there are five stages of grief, you know... five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Not in any particular order. Anyhow, I denied your death, I was angry about it, I bargained with Mearth to try and get her to un-bury your site and I was depressed about the whole ordeal. One thing I just fr..	anger bargaining crazy death death-of-a-loved-one dehumanization denial depression discredit dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend loss lunatic mourning revival sadness	Rebecca McNutt
4fd9e52	Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.	media news newspaper sensationalism tragedy world	Rebecca McNutt
b49daf0	There's a good reason for everything, ain't there?	inspirational optimism reason	Rebecca McNutt
4299a25	Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse."	ask bereavement deal death-dying death-of-a-friend death-of-a-loved-one easy grief lie loss love mourning saying time worse	Rebecca McNutt

99c5c19

I've seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly... they can't kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I've seen humans die from smoking them... if I were you I would stop smoking them." "Why should I? You smoke 'em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes," Mandy pointed out. "Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties... for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tape..

attack blast-from-the-past cancer chain-smoke cigar cigarette creepy deadly depress depression disturbing education eerie gray grief haunting health horror knowledge loss no-smoking past pollution retro scary self-help sick smog smoke spooky times tobacco trapped vhs-tape video

Rebecca McNutt

bb144b3

Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a screen, they'd likely text with their last breath.

cell-phone depressing digital-age future phone sad text

Rebecca McNutt

6759640

I've been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you'll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down.

baggage fall grief life mental-illness mourn mourning unstable

Rebecca McNutt

ead9b0f

People don't look like people anymore after they've fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground.

disaster fall gore ground people september-11-attacks september-11th twin-towers world-trade-center

Rebecca McNutt

d34484e

Shout to the top!

cheer fun happy joy life protest shout voice

Rebecca McNutt

1c9d77f

Why'd you want to kill yourself? Didn't you feel anything, or didn't it hurt you?" Mandy questioned, looking puzzled. "Yes, I suppose it did, ... it was strange, it was sharp, that's all I can think of to describe it... and cold, but not cold like ice, more like... I don't know, like something much worse, something horrible... and it seemed like the ground was falling upwards, becoming the sky... for a moment it made me consider that it wa..

canada confusion creepy dark death drugs dying dysfunctional friend friends friendship grief halloween help loss morbid nostalgia sadness self-harm self-mutilation spooky suicide swing-set

Rebecca McNutt

69fc964

You get people who think you have a mental disorder, people calling you frigid, but I don't care. If they're that desperate, clearly THEY have a problem.

asexuality desperate frigid love mental-disorder

Rebecca McNutt

c39b311

They were relentless, brilliant scavengers with a keen sense of craftiness, and no human being could outwit them. The kind of cunning mischief and competition that a murder of crows possessed was unbeatable, and the war between farmer and fowl was a never-ending tale of woe which often led purely to bankruptcy.

bird country crow farm farmer nature raven

Rebecca McNutt

0b2141c

I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.

canada-day cape-breton coal country hazardous home life living nova-scotia patriot pollution steel sydney-tar-ponds toxic

Rebecca McNutt

581d398

Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh.

funny happy joy laugh life live

Rebecca McNutt

bb347ad

There are some things in the past that... that just aren't meant to be viewed.

found-footage met past viewed

Rebecca McNutt

814b528

When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?

brother hatred history human man monster morality prejudice race racism sister

Rebecca McNutt

3f0d35c

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn't listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed in identical uniforms, just like in school, always standing with stony faces, setting up shelters and warning signals and food storage boxes. And as the public service announcements and racist propaganda bloomed onto the screens in every cla..

army bigitry box classroom education ignorance military nuclear nuclear-war propaganda public-service-announcement racism radiation radioactive school screen sheeple society stereotype storage-box united-states war weapon

Rebecca McNutt

407e360

I don't want any other friends! They'd never be as good a friend as you are.

friend

Rebecca McNutt

9d645e6

Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.

cynical deams fake false lie nightmare sleep

Rebecca McNutt

5322620

Oh, I'm Chrissy Mackenzie, I'm from Vancouver but I came here to study environmental journalism," the girl exclaimed with way too much enthusiasm. "You got any advice?" "Search me," Mandy muttered, spooning another ice cube from the empty glass on the table in front of her. "I like pollution, I write in favor of it, and environmental journalism most often implies that it's in favor of all that "go green" hippie crap." "Oh, well...." Chriss..

cape-breton change drea drunk environmntal friend gol hippie hope ice-cube improve journalist joy nova-scotia peace pollution sad vancouver world

Rebecca McNutt

1adb6c9

People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were pollution we would get rid of anyone who was different, anyone who was considered an inconvenience... but we'd be getting rid of a life, a lot of lives... because we didn't like them. If pollution was a person would we still be trying to get ri..

animals canada dangerous death earth environment environmentalism evil garbage help hippie hope human life litter mental-illness people plants pollution scary smog water

Rebecca McNutt

2a0a0e9

Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be.

family-drama happy people social

Rebecca McNutt

20c3944

Selena was born in a generation that had grown up on the edge. She'd grown up knowing that the little child starlet who voiced Anne-Marie on 'All Dogs Go to Heaven', Judith Barsi, had been murdered and set on fire by her own father. She'd grown up knowing that school shootings were more common than winning the lottery. She'd grown up in an age of terror.

fear growing-up judith-barsi millennial-quotes millennials murder school-shooting terror

Rebecca McNutt

f93063f

There was a heaven beyond anything he knew where there was no jet fuel, no jumping, no burning towers... but he wasn't looking beyond yet. He was still looking back.

death heaven life new-york new-york-city september-11-attacks september-11th skyscrapers terrorism

Rebecca McNutt

bb6b4ba

Wendy's house, unlike many in Cape Breton, had three floors, along with a basement and attic. Aside from Wendy's bedroom, there was a laundry room. The dirty water in the sink would rush from the washer hose, bubbling up, threatening to overflow, but it never did. Next-door was a motel with a neon sign that read in turquoise and pink, "We have the best rates in town!", but the 'E' in 'rates' kept flickering on and off day and night so that ..

bedroom best bubble canada cape-breton funny hotel house inn laundry-room motel neon nostalgia odd pink poor quaint rat rates rats sink small-town strange sydney turquoise weird

Rebecca McNutt

d0f338e

They think I'm not entirely 'grounded in reality', they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back programmed like some robot, dressed in a tye-dyed shirt and eating tuna sandwiches," Mandy explained, a horrified look on her face. "You're eighteen, not twelve! Would they really send you to some rat's nest like that?" Wendy questioned in mock ho..

canada center coming-of-age family friendship humor locks nostalgia nova-scotia ontario pressure preteen rebel reprogramming self-help sleepaway straight-camp summer-camp teen troubled tuna-sandwich wiener-roast

Rebecca McNutt

615584f

On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, never the kind of person who deserved to die in the way that he did.

glass greed morality september-11-attacks wall-street

Rebecca McNutt

6d95d6b

The Twin Towers stood out like an enormous number 11 looming over New York City, a familiar icon coupled with the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty. Those towers were like the soul of lower Manhattan, alive in their own right.

brooklyn-bridge empire-state-building icon landmark manhattan skyscraper statue-of-liberty twin-towers world-trade-center

Rebecca McNutt

8e189a5

I don't want anything else bad to happen," she whispered, her voice choked with tears. "I'm so sick to death of bad things happening, of seeing bad things that happened in the past! And I'm guilty of so many things. I'm sorry that I killed Mrs. Matthias and wrecked her stupid greenhouse back in the Eighties and I'm sorry I left you here alone while I went around the world." "I wasn't alone though, I knew you were doing what you wanted to do..

apart bad crying damaged death eighties friend friendship greenhouse grief guilt hopelessness lonliness love murder omen shadow smile sorrow tears together travel trouble world

Rebecca McNutt

10054a5

I've just been thinking it would be a lot of fun to live in a defunct shopping mall! Totally abandoned, Yet still frozen in time, Bright white lights shining, Artificial turquoise fountains spewing out clear water, Eerie eighties elevator music drifting by... Dancing erratically, shouting to the top, Because it's sad to see these places die. They're a testament to the hubris of modern America, which is dying in and of itself. Let's ..

childhood consumerism dead-mall eerie life love mall nostalgia shopping

Rebecca McNutt

362f8ce

People who want nothing need nothing more than power.

power society wealth

Rebecca McNutt

e26618d

Someday I'll be a lawyer... someday I'll bring justice to people who need it. Lawyers are either legalized liars... or saviors of the truth.

court courtroom jurisprudence law lawyer legal liar savior truth

Rebecca McNutt

b4d2d3f

New York City is a phoenix rising from the ashes.

new-york new-york-city phoenix phoenix-rising sad september-11-attacks terrorism world-trade-center

Rebecca McNutt

b42e34b

Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.

canada cape-breton coal created death dying kodak-moment memory mining nostalgia nova-scotia person pollution society steel super-8 threw

Rebecca McNutt

f3629a7

Um, thanks," Jackson told her. "And your name is...?" "I'm Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf," she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached. "Van Der Graaf?" Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn't want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but... Van Der Graaf? "What are you laughing at?" Margaret asked with curiosity..

comedy friendship funny ghost humor longing lonliness name smile stranger weird

Rebecca McNutt

9932dd4

What's supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.

dreams inspirational life philosophy supposed

Rebecca McNutt

7103481

If you were me you'd do the right thing, help your friends, because you're not a coward," Mandy sighed sadly. "I covered up a murder because I was scared to go to jail and I did the wrong thing... well, now's my chance to do the right thing, to save someone's life, because I don't want you to die." "Save someone's life? I'm no one," Alecto laughed morbidly. "A hundred and twelve years is definitely way too long to have survived. You'd be wa..

cape-breton coward crime death disturbance dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend jail loss misery moral-values morals murder nova-scotia ocean rescue right scary seaside suicide wrong

Rebecca McNutt

e32bbc4

And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?

insanity sorrow time

Rebecca McNutt

739c692

There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it... this place, she decided, was called Smog City.

canada city concept cruel death film forgotten grief heaven kodachrome kodak nostalgia smog steel super-8

Rebecca McNutt

5ac577c

With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature," Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. "I didn't create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren't many of them left these days but they're still very dangerous! They're here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don't understa..

canada cape-breton chemicals chernobyl coal death disturbing dying earth entity environment fear green grief hazardous hippie imaginary imagination loss love-canal mother-earth nature nova-scotia pollution recycle representation scared smog steel storm suicide sydney-tar-ponds tar tar-sands toxic-waste

Rebecca McNutt

999d312

Son, let me tell you a little something about the environment... you can try to fix it up all you want, but it's a waste of time. Sooner or later we'll all be doomed... slaughtered by terrorists, baked in the heat of the sun, nuked until our shadows glow... greed is good. We don't exist to help other people, we exist to grow the hell up, have kids, get old and die, while consuming all we can. Nothing comes after. There's no wrath, no day of..

environment fix greed heat nice nuclear rich sun terrorism

Rebecca McNutt

8a0d0c5

Super 8 film is the language of silence.

cape-breton film kodak kodak-moment language nostalgia nova-scotia obscure photography seventies silence super-8

Rebecca McNutt

da1b5b6

She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly."

cigarette dragging line live loud mind music noise noisy place question quiet radio smoking song thinking thought tommy-james world

Rebecca McNutt

080c3c2

I love you," he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. "I'd trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems... you never deserved this... why would anyone do something so terrible!?" A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again. The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden..

bulb death depressing dim electricity empty explode eyes fluorescent friendship grief heart hospital i-love-you lobotomy loss love mental-hospital psychosurgery tragic

Rebecca McNutt

b8b2676

Why did you revive me?" Alecto repeated. "Well... uh, well...." Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. "They say there are five stages of grief, you know... five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Not in any particular order. Anyhow, I denied your death, I was angry about it, I bargained with Mearth to try and get her to un-bury your site and I was depressed about the whole ordeal. One thing I just fr..

anger bargaining crazy death death-of-a-loved-one dehumanization denial depression discredit dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend loss lunatic mourning revival sadness

Rebecca McNutt

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Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.

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There's a good reason for everything, ain't there?

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Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse."

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