White Noise

She said I made virtues of her flaws because it was my nature to shelter loved ones from the truth.

Why do these possessions carry such sorrowful weight? There is a darkness attached to them, a foreboding. They make me wary not of personal failure and defeat but of something more general, something large in scope and content.

Maybe there is no death as we know it. Just documents changing hands.

"How do you know so much?" Babette said.

"I'm from New York."

She said I made virtues of her flaws because it was my nature to shelter loved ones from the truth.

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Are secrets a tunnel to a dreamworld where you control events?

Wilder sat inside, on the collapsible shelf, trying to grab items whose shape and radiance excited his system of sensory analysis.

Decorative gestures add romance to a life.

"Who lives here now, mostly?"
"Mostly no one,"